SciShow: Thank Goodness for Bacterial Cannibalism

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Content of the Lesson: Some species of bacteria have a wicked survival strategy: killing members of their own species or a closely-related one. There’s a lot we don’t know about it, but it's possible that someday we could potentially harness that knowledge to kill them inside the human body! Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://phys.org/news/2020-02-scientists-bacterial-cannibalism.html https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/8/4/230/review_report http://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R01-HL142626-01A1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963621/ https://microchemlab.com/microorganisms/bacillus-subtilis https://www.pnas.org/content/102/24/8710 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221631003X https://www.cdc.gov/pneumococcal/clinicians/clinical-features.html https://elifesciences.org/digests/45257/zooming-in-on-sporulation https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982215008738 https://books.google.com/books?id=Sq1OBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA212&lpg=PA212&dq=%22blood-air+barrier%22+%22air+bubbles%22&source=bl&ots=eO4aiM-dwX&sig=ACfU3U3D3QPi4RRBKmAWhBV1QTDpwNZzGw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-x5Go_eHnAhW2JzQIHUDwC5oQ6AEwEHoECGEQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22blood-air%20barrier%22%20%22air%20bubbles%22&f=false Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bacillus_subtilis_Spore.jpg


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