252: Electrifying microbial fuel cells

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this episode of TWiM, using colicins to ferry DNA into cells through an iron transporter, and construction of highly efficient microbial fuel cells that produce more electrical current than previously observed.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Links for this episode:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Colicins used to</span> <a href="https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01787-21"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ferry DNA into cells</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(mBio)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Highly efficient</span> <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.abf3427"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> microbial fuel cells</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(Science)</span></li> <li><a href= "https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl3612"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Silver</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">assists fuel cells (Science)</span></li> <li><a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/115/22/5632"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Biological transport</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">goes the extra mile (PNAS)</span></li> <li><a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/115/22/5786"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Long distance transport</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">in cable bacteria (PNAS)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Columbia U pledges</span> <a href= "https://news.columbia.edu/news/columbia-pledges-all-future-campus-construction-will-be-fossil-free"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">fossil free buildings</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Columbia U)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Become a <a href= "http://www.microbe.tv/contribute">patron</a> of TWiM.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Send your microbiology questions and comments to twim@microbe.tv</span></p>