Can ticks teach us how to make better hand sanitizer?
Apr 11, 2021•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 27
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Episode description
My guest this week is Dr. Seemay Chou, my colleague at UCSF who uses ticks as a model system for host-microbial interactions. She talks about her remarkable discovery of bacteria genes that have transferred into ticks and how they serve to protect ticks from microbes found on human skin.
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