{"podcast":{"title":"This Week in Microbiology","slug":"this-week-in-microbiology-1045713","podcast_index_feed_id":1045713,"rss_url":"https://twimshow.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.asm.org/twim/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/4/a/b/a4ab14edd084774e16c3140a3186d450/TWiM_2026-1400.jpg","author":"American Society for Microbiology","episode_count":360,"summary":"This Week in Microbiology is a podcast about unseen life on Earth hosted by Vincent Racaniello and friends. Following in the path of his successful shows 'This Week in Virology' (TWiV) and 'This Week in Parasitism' (TWiP), Racaniello and guests produce an informal yet informative conversation about microbes which is accessible to everyone, no matter what their science background.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T06:19:00.683301+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology-1045713"},"episode":{"title":"338: Rewriting the Code of Life","slug":"338-rewriting-the-code-of-life","published_at":"2025-08-16T04:30:50+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology-1045713/338-rewriting-the-code-of-life","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology-1045713","url":"https://www.microbe.tv/twim/twim-338/","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/twimshow/TWiM338.mp3?dest-id=53322","summary":"TWiM discusses outbreak of Legionnaires disease in Harlem NY, an automated whole genome sequencing platform for bacterial strain typing in clinical microbiology laboratories, building E. coli with a 57-codon genetic code. Links for this episode Legionnaires' disease outbreak in NY (NY Health) Automated whole genome sequencing for clinical labs (J Clin Micro) Sequencing workflow for outbreaks (J Clin Micro) Rewriting code of life (NYTimes) E. coli with a 57-codon genetic code (Science) E. coli with one stop codon ( TWiM 330 ) Become a patron of TWiM. Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.","meta_description":"TWiM discusses outbreak of Legionnaires disease in Harlem NY, an automated whole genome sequencing platform for bacterial strain typing in clinical microb…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3202,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-week-in-microbiology-1045713/episodes/338-rewriting-the-code-of-life/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology-1045713/338-rewriting-the-code-of-life.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}