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TWiM explains a bacterial antiviral defense system that uses a noncoding RNA template to build tandem-repeat DNA through a mechanism that parallels how eukaryotic telomerase extends telomeres, and genome sequencing of the Tsimane of Bolivia and the Hadza of Tanzania which reveals ...  Show more

TWiM explains how bacterial endosymbionts enhance fungal virulence by disrupting the protective rhizobiome, and the development of rationally engineered Salmonella typhimurium strains with enhanced safety and antitumor efficacy. Become a patron of TWiM. Links for this episode: Pl ...  Show more

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and <a href= " ...

At Microbe 2017 in New Orleans, the TWiM team speaks with Arturo Casadevall about his thoughts on the pathogenic potential of a microbe, rigorous science, funding by lottery, and moonshot science. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson. Gu ...  Show more

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, <a href="http://www.mgm.ufl.e ...