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.

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Links for this episode:

• Plant, fungus, endosymbiont, and rhizobiome (PNAS)

• Engineering S. typhimurium to kill tumors (mBio)
  
  

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TWiM wonders why archaea are not pathogenic, and reveals how a colibactin produced by a honeybee gut symbiont defends against pathogens.

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Links for this episode:

• Why are archaea not pathogenic? (mBio)

• Archaeal viruses (Archaea)

• Colibactin made in honeybee gut (Nat Micro)
  
  

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TWiM explains the finding that Bunsen burners do not decrease deposition of microbe-containing particles, and how gut microbiota generate dinitrosyl iron complexes with cardiometabolic benefits.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michael Schmidt

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Links for this episode:

• Bunsen burners don't do what you thought they did (Micro Spectrum)

• How does air circulate in passenger planes? | AFP

• How germs travel on planes | Raymond Wang

• Gut bacteria and cardiometabolic health (Cell)
  

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