SciFri Radio: Microbiology

SciFri Radio: Synthetic Biology Competition
We'll get the results of a recent student competition centered around the design and construction of living machines.

SciFri Radio: All Listeners Must Wash Hands
Mom told you to wash your hands -- but do you? New research gets the dirt on our handwashing behaviors.

SciFri Radio: Late Blight Up Close
The genome of the organism responsible for the dread agricultural disease known as late blight has been sequenced.

SciFri Radio: How Clean is the Shower?
In an icky finding, researchers report that your showerhead can provide a dark, wet, and warm environment for microbes to grow -- and can spray...

SciFri Radio: H1N1 'Swine Flu' Update
We'll get an update on the spread of H1N1 influenza around the world, what researchers are finding out about the disease, and progress towards...

SciFri Radio: Cell Phone Microscope
Researchers describe an portable fluorescent microscope they've built using a cell phone and inexpensive parts.

SciFri Radio: Of Genes and Antibodies
Researchers say they've identified the gene that tells the body to produce one type of immune antibody.

SciFri Radio: A New Swine Virus
Scientists say the ebolavirus made famous in Richard Preston's thriller 'The Hot Zone' has been found living in the Philippines.

SciFri Radio: Oil from Diatoms
Is it possible to engineer diatoms to secrete oil?

SciFri Radio: The Body's Bacteria
A new study of the critters that live on the human body find that our skin is home to a much wider variety of bacteria than previously thought.

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SciFri Newsbriefs: Microbiology

Newsbrief: Ocean in a Bottle
Researchers figured out how the ocean smells like the ocean.

Newsbrief: Feeling Feverish? Sit Still
Viruses evolve differently depending on how free their hosts are to move and mingle.

Newsbrief: Spacebugs
When Salmonella goes up in space, it changes--and not for the better.

Newsbrief: Watch out hand sanitizer. Clay kills bacteria too.
A certain type of french clay wipes out bacteria.

Newsbrief: Genome of dandruff-inducing fungus sequenced
Unwanted flakes? Scientists inspect the genes of the fungus responsible for dandruff.

Newsbrief: Color from Nature
Clothing could get their color—and germ-fighting properties—from a strain of marine bacteria

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