{"589632":{"#nid":"589632","#data":{"type":"news","title":"A \u0022Gut Reaction\u0022 to Georgia Tech Biology Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe story of warring bacterial armies started as a Georgia Tech research published in February. Now it\u0026#39;s a nationally distributed podcast produced by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and you can thank the researchers\u0026#39; unique mix of biology\u0026nbsp;and math for inspiring NSF to tell the story widely in this format.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nsf.gov\/news\/mmg\/mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=82054\u0026amp;from\u0022\u003E\u0026quot;The Discovery Files\u0026quot;\u003C\/a\u003E recently highlighted the work of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/brian-hammer\u0022\u003EBrian Hammer\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ratclifflab.biology.gatech.edu\/about%20the%20pi.htm\u0022\u003EWill Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/sam-brown\u0022\u003ESamuel Brown,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/peter-yunker\u0022\u003EPeter Yunker\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in a 90-second radio feature titled \u0026quot;A Gut Reaction.\u0026quot; The podcast is based on a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms14371\u0022\u003Epaper\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;published on Feb. 6, 2017, in the journal Nature Communications.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\/news\/biosci\/physics\/cholera-bacterial-warfare\u0022\u003EThe researchers used math and physics equations to find patterns and consistency in how two competing armies of cholera bacteria attack\u0026nbsp;each other\u003C\/a\u003E. The work could someday help scientists develop targeted therapies using engineered microbes\u0026nbsp;that could kill infectious, harmful bacteria while sparing helpful ones.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENSF, which helped fund the research, creates a weekly audio report on the latest scientific research. \u0026quot;The Discovery Files\u0026quot; airs on radio stations throughout the U.S.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYou can listen to\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;A Gut Reaction\u0026quot; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/media.science360.gov\/audio\/podcast\/gutreaction.mp3\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHammer and Brown are associate professors in the School of Biological Sciences. 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