Discussion: “Bacterial DNA in the human genome”; TWiM69 (Noticias)

Populations of human cells have a constant, intimate relationship with the human microbiome. With that comes a potential for lateral gene transfer that could be analogous to disease-causing DNA insertions […]

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Review: «Microbes and evolution»; TWiM39 (Noticias)

Hosts Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter review chapters from «Microbes and Evolution. The world that Darwin never saw«, a collection of short, personal essays by microbiologists edited by Roberto Kolter, […]

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Discussion: «Resistance on the surface»; TWiM47 (Noticias)

Hosts Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter discuss the horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes on metal surfaces, and using bacteriophage to reverse antibiotic resistance. TWiM #47: Resistance on […]

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