Microbe Talk: MicroNews April
Posted on April 30, 2020 by Microbiology Society
MicroNews is the sister series of our podcast Microbe Talk, where we discuss microbiology in the news over the last month. As COVID-19 is taking over the news elsewhere, we decided to focus on other stories from the microbial world, including developing a vaccine for malaria, breakthroughs in protist genomics and using bacteria to help plants grow in salty soil.
Links to the news stories discussed during this episode can be found below:
Research reveals a new malaria vaccine candidate
Recently-discovered bacteria could be used as a biopesticide
Scientists use bacteria to help plants grow in salty soil
Devloping genetic tools to understand protist DNA