Microbe Magazine

When the film begins, the screen remains dark for several moments but the audience hears several dry coughs. When the picture appears, the character is a blonde, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, and we soon learn that her seemingly minor cough is the first sign of a far more serious illness, one that i... More...

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli cells attach to and invade host cells via sticky type 1 pili, which form when chaperone and usher proteins interact in the bacterial periplasm. Using X-ray crystallography, an international team of researchers captured structural data ... More...

Malaria Tools, a model for tracking this parasitic disease, is robust enough to predict outcomes of interventions now being contemplated, according to its developers, Azra Ghani and colleagues at Imperial College in London, England. It simulates various means for controlling malaria against the d... More...

When Atlantis launched in July for the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program, it carried microbial experiments probing bacterial biofilms, the genetic makeup of yeast, microgravity effects in a plant-bacterial model system, and a candidate live-attenuated ... More...

Root endophytic communities in eastern cottonwood trees, Populus deltoids, are distinct assemblages rather than opportunists from the surrounding rhizosphere, according to Christopher W. Schadt at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and colleagues there a... More...

Soil bacteria around the roots of sugar beets, specifically members of the Pseudomonadaceae, help to protect the plants against fungal pathogens, according to Jos M. Raaijmakers at Wageningen University in Wageningen, the Netherlands and his collaborators there as well as in Brazil and California... More...