TWiM #97: There’s gold in them hills
- Author
- American Society for Microbiology
- Published
- Wed 04 Feb 2015
- Episode Link
- https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/twimshow/TWiM097.mp3
The TWiM team reveal how bacteria in a shipworm’s gills help digest wood in the gut, and an approach that identifies a new antibiotic from the soil.
Links for this episode:
Gill bacteria enable a novel digestive strategy (PNAS)
Killing bacteria without resistance (Nature)
An irresistable newcomer (Nature)
Peptidoglycan synthesis animation
10 x 20 initiative (IDSA)
- Longitude Prize
Visit microbeworld.org/twim for more.
