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… Quite a lot of people in Europe do this traveling by train inter-railing around countries. And I was actually in … produced by microbes, they’re pretty adaptable to other organisms. And we’ve done that with microalgae. They’re … linking like with like. And so if you know any one of those within that cluster, you can begin to infer the function of …

… and scientists of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Hello, and welcome back for Episode 7 of the Natural Prodcast. It’s … a new one out every two weeks. This time, we’ve got a great interview with Ben Shen, from the Scripps Research Institute … And so that’s a big collection of natural product-producing organisms that Pfizer, you know, mined for years to try to …

… skip straight on to Episodes 4 5 and 6, for some fun interviews, unless you want to fact check us. I like … the common biochemical pathways shared by almost all living organisms. So almost all of these reactions are going on in … the mentality that I’m looking at it with, you know, it’s within a species or microbial population, you have some set …

… a protein in soil viruses that may promote soil health. The work was enabled in part by a community data portal of the … can have a significant impact on the microbial communities within soil. Using metagenomics, scientists can shed light … in the study is essentially chewing food to help  microorganisms thrive — and those microorganisms affect a lot of …

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… humans accidentally eat it, but it has a really fun and interesting biosynthetic pathway, and I’ll have to do a … love a challenge, and love the idea of working on harder organisms, with the kinds of challenges that usually lead to … the sponges talk to each other? ERIC:   He was looking at interactions between sponges and other organisms. So one of …

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… area. If this series of podcast episodes has sparked your interest, and you want to learn more, then I highly … time to get to the point of being able to sequence whole organisms, but eventually we got there. But before that … an activator, to go ahead and, and synthesize those genes within a model organism like E.coli , and have it produce …

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