259: Sea Sawdust
- Author
- Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson, Michael Schmidt, Mark O. Martin
- Published
- Mon 14 Feb 2022
- Episode Link
- https://www.microbe.tv/twim/twim-259/
Mark Martin returns to TWiM for a discussion of the frightening global burden of bacterial antibiotic resistance, and a solution to the problem of daylight nitrogen fixation in a cyanobacterium, despite the incompatibility of nitrogenase with oxygen produced during photosynthesis.
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Links for this episode:
- Global bacterial antimicrobial resistance (Nat Micro)
- Cancer moon shot (NCI)
- When antibiotics don’t work (TED)
- Cyanobacterium buoyancy (Nat Micro)
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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