TWiM 288: Can­cer and E. coli

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TWiM de­scribes a po­ten­tial con­nec­tion be­tween a bac­te­r­ial pro­tein that dam­ages DNA, and hu­man can­cers, and how to syn­the­size an­timi­cro­bial nat­ural prod­ucts from re­con­structed bac­te­r­ial genomes of the Mid­dle and Up­per Pa­le­olithic.

Hosts: Vin­cent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swan­son, Pe­tra Levin.
 

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Links for this episode

• Col­orec­tal can­cer and E. coli (Na­ture)
• Nat­ural prod­ucts from an­cient bac­te­r­ial genomes (Sci­ence)
• Un­der­ex­plored bac­te­ria reser­voirs of an­timi­cro­bial lipopep­tides (Front Chem)
• Fries With That Mam­moth Burger? (Mother Jones)
• 25–40 mil­lion year old spores (Sci­ence)
• 250 mil­lion year old bac­terium from salt crys­tal (Na­ture)
• 1918 in­fluenza with Jef­fery Tauben­berger (TWiV 966)
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