TWiM #81: Cold iron is the mas­ter of them all

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Hosts: Vin­cent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swan­son.

Vin­cent, Michael, and Michele dis­cuss how iron might dis­perse bac­te­r­ial biofilms in carotid ar­te­r­ial plaques, and con­trol­ling Sal­mo­nella by mod­u­lat­ing host iron home­osta­sis.

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