TWiM #111: Ancientbiotics and modernbiotics

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter.

The TWiMitos discuss the reconstruction of a 1,000-year-old antimicrobial remedy, and using gallium as an antimicrobial in the battle for iron.

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Links for this episode 

• 1,000 year old antimicrobial (mBio)
• Siderophore quenching with gallium (Evol Med Pub Health)
• Evolutionary dynamics of public goods (J Evol Biol)
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiM 111

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

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