This Week in Mi­cro­bi­ol­ogy #104: Feed me polyamines, biofilm

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The pod­cast about un­seen life on Earth hosted by: Vin­cent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swan­son. 

The TWiM team dis­cusses how measles vac­ci­na­tion pro­tects against other in­fec­tious dis­eases, and links be­tween bac­te­r­ial biofilms and colon can­cer.

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