Microbe Magazine

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Infectious Causes of Chronic Illness: an Overview
Imagine if debilitating arthritis were due to an anaerobic bacterium that lives in our mouths. What if heart attacks were due to a transmissible bacterium or autism to a virus? What if vaccines could prevent these and other chronic illnesses?
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Modeling the Earth Microbiome
Globally, microbial cells are 1 billion times more abundant than stars in the universe. Such numbers make it a daunting task to understand microbial complexity in useful ways. Because cataloguing this vastness does not immediately provide useful products, we should design surveys with specific qu...
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Cloudy with a Chance of Microbes
In trying to disprove spontaneous generation, Louis Pasteur helped to launch experimental aeromicrobiology. Recognizing that virtually any microbe could be transported and disseminated in air, he developed sampling procedures to study airborne cells and soon showed that microbial abundances decre...
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