Microbe Magazine

Cover: A view of Pinnacle Rock on Bartolome Island in the Galapagos Islands. Charles Darwin's voyage to these islands played a role in developing his revelatory insights into natural selection and evolution. Microbiologists reflect on Darwin and evolution in articles on p. 26 and 30). (Photo © Pesky Monkey/iStockphoto.)
Cover: A view of Pinnacle Rock on Bartolome Island in the Galapagos Islands. Charles Darwin's voyage to these islands played a role in developing his revelatory insights into natural selection and evolution. Microbiologists reflect on Darwin and evolution in articles on p. 26 and 30). (Photo © Pesky Monkey/iStockphoto.)
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Microarrays and Deep Sequencing in Clinical Microbiology
Nucleic acid detection technology is revolutionizing microbiological diagnostic testing. With the exception of infectious prion proteins, all pathogenic microbes contain DNA and / or RNA and are thus targets for nucleic acid-based testing. Some clinical microbiology laboratories are largely shift...
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Dynamics of Host-Associated Microbial Communities
Microbes account for more than 90% of the cells of the human maintenance of organ alloengraftment has body, forming distinctive communities at different sites. These communities affect health—promoting organ development, stimulating the immune system, providing nutrients, and excluding pathogens....
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Darwin and Microbiology
Galapagos Islands, August, 2009.
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Evolution in Action: a 50,000-Generation Salute to Charles Darwin
Like cuneiform on clay tablets, the history of life itself is written in minerals and in code. The minerals are fossils of long-dead organisms, while the code is the language of DNA shared by all organisms, revealing the family tree of life.