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January 1st - 15th, 2005 Radio Shows
Air Date Program Mon., 1/3 Seagoing Sensor: A new genetic sensor at sea may help researchers identify dangerous microbes and better understand the oceans.
Tues., 1/4 Industrial Oil from Microbes: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is studying ways to get microbes to transform cheap vegetable oil into a valuable industrial commodity.
Weds., 1/5 Microbes Inside Mayan Ruins: Microbes are munching the interior of some Mayan ruins in Mexico.
Thurs., 1/6 Fishy Vaccine Baths: Some viruses can wipe out salmon and trout populations. A new vaccine bath may protect them.
Fri., 1/7 1918 Flu: Chickens and other waterfowl harbor influenza viruses, which cause flu. One particularly deadly strain was responsible for the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.
Mon., 1/10 Life Down Under…Zero: Millions of ancient mini-microbes have been discovered nearly two miles below the surface of a Greenland glacier.
Tues., 1/11 A Community Genome: More than ninety-nine percent of soil bacteria cannot be cultured for identification. Now, scientists learn what's there by analyzing gene segments from the soil.
Weds., 1/12 Malaria's Range: Malaria is a worldwide disease that is particularly deadly in sub-Saharan Africa.Thurs., 1/13 Stopping Malaria: Poor countries can not afford the measures needed to eradicate malaria, a parasite that often develops resistance to anti-malarial drugs. Recent research explores ways to interfere with the disease.
Fri., 1/14 Glowfish: More than a thousand miles from the ocean, microbiologists unexpectedly found luminescent bacteria glowing on dead salmon in Alaska.
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