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<p>This episode: New techniques allow specific modifications in certain members of a complex community of microbes, without isolating them in pure culture first!</p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/bacteriofiles/BF475.mp3">Download Episode</a></span> (11.5 MB, 16.7 minutes)<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Show notes:</span><br /> Microbe of the episode: Tomato golden mosaic virus</p> <p><a href= "https://phys.org/news/2021-12-crispring-microbiome-corner.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">News item</a></p> <div><strong>Takeaways</strong></div> <div> <div> <div> <div>The technology for understanding and manipulating microbial genetics has come a long way in a short time. It used to take years even to sequence a small genome, and now thousands can be sequenced in just a few days. The technology to change and even create genetic sequences is also much further advanced now than just a few decades ago. But still, many analyses and modif...