220: From Mars to the vagina

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">TWiM reveals that methane-producing bacteria might survive beneath the surface of Mars, and identification of a cytopathogenic toxin in a bacterium associated with preterm birth.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hosts:</span> <a href= "http://www.virology.ws/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vincent Racaniello</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href="http://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Elio Schaechter</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href= "https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/microbiology-immunology/michele-swanson-phd"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Michele Swanson</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href= "http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/immunology/Faculty/schmidt.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael Schmidt</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> <br /> Become a</span> <a href= "http://www.microbe.tv/contribute"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">patron</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">of TWiM.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Links for this episode:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Archaea could make</span> <a href= "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31913316/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">methane on Mars</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(Sci Rep)</span></li> <li><a href= "https://jb.asm.org/content/202/13/e00162-20"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Cytopathogenic toxin</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">in bacterium associated with preterm birth (J Bact)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by</span> <a href= "http://ronaldjenkees.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ronald Jenkees</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and used with permission.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Send your microbiology questions and comments to</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">twim@micr