Microbe Magazine

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Where Do Emerging Pathogens Come from?
Infectious diseases continue to impose a huge global public health burden, accounting for more than one-quarter of all deaths annually and a similar fraction of morbidity. In addition to long-established infections such as malaria, tuberculosis, and measles, we are also seeing the frequent emerge...
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“It’s Not What We Say…”
In the context of teaching undergraduates about microbiology, how would you complete the following statement? “It’s not what we say…” I immediately think of at least three ways to finish that sentence: “It’s what we do”; “it’s what we don’t say”; and “it’s how we say it.” Jeanne Poindexter of Bar...
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Programmed Ribosomal Frameshifting Goes beyond Viruses
Ordinarily, ribosomes rigorously maintain the reading frame of messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules being translated into proteins. However, some mRNAs of viruses—and other, more complex organisms— sometimes carry special sequence information and structural elements in their mRNA molecules that enable ...
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