182: A micro story with macro implications

Aug 9, 2018 · 1 hr 5 min · Episode 182 · 31.6 MB

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The TWiM hosts reveal how to test antimicrobial susceptibility in less than 30 minutes, and a carbonate-sensitive phytotransferrin in diatoms that controls iron uptake.

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Links for this episode:

Legionnaire's Disease with Michele Swanson
Antibiotic susceptibility in less than 30 min (PNAS)
S. saprophyticus growing in microfluidic chip (movie, PNAS)
Mother machine (Jun lab)
E. coli growth in mother machine (YouTube)
Diatom phytotransferrin (Nature)
CRISPR tool kit (Nat Commun)
A Crack in Creation by Doudna and Sternberg
CRISPR/Cas9 for undergrads (BMBE)
John Oliver on gene editing (YouTube)
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Letters read on TWiM 182

Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

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