224: One hundred million year old bacteria

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The TWiM team reveals the genetic mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls from sequencing of DNA, and 100 million year old living bacteria recovered from marine sediments.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hosts: <a href= "http://www.virology.ws/">Vincent Racaniello</a>, <a href= "http://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/">Elio Schaechter</a>, <a href= "https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/microbiology-immunology/michele-swanson-phd"> Michele Swanson</a> and <a href= "http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/immunology/Faculty/schmidt.html"> Michael Schmidt</a></span></p> <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;">Links for this episode:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://schaechter.asmblog.org/elios_memoirs/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Elio’s Memoirs</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Genetic mysteries of</span> <a href= "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32492404/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Dead Sea Scrolls</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(Cell)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17330-1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">100 million year old bacteria</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">under the sea (Nat Comm)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls#/media/File:The_Damascus_Document_Scroll.jpg"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Image credit</span></a></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@microbe.tv</span>