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August 16- August 31, 2006 Radio Shows
Air Date Program Wed., 8/16 Playing With Microbes : Medical, dental, and nursing students are playing microbiology video games to bolster their education.
Thurs., 8/17 Styrofoam Reducers : The answer to environmentally-unfriendly styrofoam lies in a microbe capable of breaking it down into biodegradable plastic.
Fri., 8/18 Art Imitates Bacteria : An Israeli researcher studying bacterial communication has stumbled upon a complex and beautiful bacterial art form.
Mon., 8/21 Azurin: The microbe responsible for pneumonia could one day be recruited to infiltrate and destroy cancer cells.
Tue., 8/22 Antibiotic Resistance in the Natural World: A look at wastewater treatment plants and their ability to prevent antibiotic-resistant microbes from entering our waterways.
Wed., 8/23 MS-Microbe Connection: Research shows the underlying cause of multiple sclerosis may be an immune response to a stomach microbe.
Thurs., 8/24 Preventing Kidney Stones: Scientists are exploring whether microbes may be able to prevent the formation of kidney stones.
Fri., 8/25 Bats Most Commonly Implicated in Rabies: Bats may be the main culprit for rabies infections in the 55,000 people that die of the disease worldwide each year.
Mon., 8/28 Grape Juice and Ulcers: Researchers are looking at grape juice as a potential tonic for peptic ulcers.
Tue., 8/29 Whooping Cough Anniversary: The bacterium that causes whooping cough, bordetella pertussis, is making a comeback in the U.S. one hundred years after its discovery in 1906.
Wed., 8/30 Environmental Metagenomics: Environmental metagenomics is allowing researchers to study the microbes they’re unable to culture in the lab.
Thurs., 8/31 From Genomes to Biomes: Researching genomes can reveal crucial information about the ecosystems in which they exist.
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