182: A micro story with macro implications

The TWiM hosts reveal how to test antimicrobial susceptibility in less than 30 minutes, and a carbonate-sensitive phytotransferrin in diatoms that controls iron uptake.

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Links for this episode:

• Legionnaire’s Disease with Michele Swanson
• Antibiotic susceptibility in less than 30 min (PNAS)
• S. saprophyticus growing in microfluidic chip (movie, PNAS)
• Mother machine (Jun lab)
• E. coli growth in mother machine (YouTube)
• Diatom phytotransferrin (Nature)
• CRISPR tool kit (Nat Commun)
• A Crack in Creation by Doudna and Sternberg
• CRISPR/Cas9 for undergrads (BMBE)
• John Oliver on gene editing (YouTube)
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiM 182

Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

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