Microbe Magazine

Cover: Color-enhanced, negative-stained transmission electron micrograph of a bacteriophage (T4). Bacteriophages can be used in applications ranging from food safety to human therapeutics (see p. 122). (Image © Scimat/Photo Researchers, Inc.)
Cover: Color-enhanced, negative-stained transmission electron micrograph of a bacteriophage (T4). Bacteriophages can be used in applications ranging from food safety to human therapeutics (see p. 122). (Image © Scimat/Photo Researchers, Inc.)
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Bacterial Vectors for Delivering Gene and Anticancer Therapies
Genes can transfer from bacteria into a broad range of recipient cells, including phylogenetically remote bacteria, yeast, and plants. In addition, after incubation with phagocytic or non phagocytic cells, bacteria can transfer functional genes into mammalian cells. Bacteria of several genera, in...
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Safety by Nature: Potential Bacteriophage Applications
Bacteriophages, viruses that kill bacteria, are likely the oldest and most ubiquitous organisms on Earth. They date back 3 billion years, and their numbers range from 1030-1032. In their predator-prey relationship with bacteria, phages play a key role in maintaining balances...
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Microbes and Microevolution
I have a huge black Labrador retriever. Like any lab he loves to swim and greets every stranger as his favorite-in-whole-world aunt or uncle. The only things he loves to maul are huge logs pulled out from the water. But my good neighbor has a pit bull. She hates water and, though knows me for man...
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