Microbe Magazine

Cover: Electron micrograph of brain tissue from a monkey infected with the prion disease kuru. Between the rounded nuclei of the nerve cells (green) are tiny vacuole spaces typical of the disease's dark spots (see p. 551). (Image PHANIE/Photo Researchers, Inc.).
Cover: Electron micrograph of brain tissue from a monkey infected with the prion disease kuru. Between the rounded nuclei of the nerve cells (green) are tiny vacuole spaces typical of the disease's dark spots (see p. 551). (Image PHANIE/Photo Researchers, Inc.).
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Prion—No Longer Mere Trespassers among Infectious Agents
Cancer recently joined the list of prion-associated diseases, according to Jerson L. Silva and colleagues at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Many of the other probable prion-instigated, protein misfolding diseases are neurodegenerative, including Alzheimer's (AD), Parki...
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Epigenetics in Eukaryotic Microbes
Epigenetics, a buzzword in some fields, might not be so familiar to some microbiologists. Yet for those studying budding yeast and several other eukaryotic microbes, a detailed picture of epigenetics is emerging. Moreover, epigenetics can play a role in pathogenesis, and we will take a look at it...
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A Quarter-Century of Indo-U.S. Vaccine Research Collaboration
Last September, American and Indian scientists met in New Delhi, India, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Indo-U.S. Vaccine Action Program (VAP). The meeting, which featured updates on VAP research projects and clinical trials, also was cause for celebration and self-congratulation for having s...
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