TWiM #134: Lipids that live for­ever

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De­sign of a syn­chro­nously lysing bac­terium for de­liv­ery of anti-tu­mor mol­e­cules in mice, and hopanoids, the lipids that live for­ever, brought to you by the four Mi­cro­bies of TWiM.

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Au­dio player thumb­nail im­age: Hopanoids in­cor­po­rated into a lipid bi­layer.

Links for this episode

• Bac­te­r­ial ly­sis for in vivo de­liv­ery (Na­ture)
• Coley's tox­ins (Iowa Or­thop J)
• Hopanoids, stress tol­er­ance, and nu­tri­ent stor­age (Geo­biol)
• Lipids that last for­ever (STC)
• Fat­ten­ing up mi­cro­bial ge­o­log­i­cal bio­mark­ers (STC)
• Money spreads in­fec­tion (Fut Mi­cro)
• TWiM 134 Let­ters

 

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