Microbe Magazine

Groan. I was disappointed to see fundamentally important misinformation foisted off in the otherwise good article, “Can't Live without You: Essential Animal-Bacterial Relationships,” by Angela E. Douglas (Microbe, June 2012, p. 273–277).

Uridine insertion/deletion RNA editing is a posttranscriptional gene regulatory process that is required for the production of the mitochondrial energy production machinery in trypanosomatids. Laurie K. Read and colleagues of the School of Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, previo... More...

Biofilm cells are known for high-level drug tolerance not seen in their planktonic counterparts. This drug tolerance has been thought to be due to decreased growth rates, diffusion, metabolic rates, and multiple other factors. Now Karin Sauer and Julie Liao of Binghamton University, Binghamton, N... More...

Human milk provides a newborn with factors that promote health and combat infection, notably lysozyme. Lysozyme is found in the tears, saliva, and milk of mammals, and it lyses bacterial cell walls. The milk of dairy animals contains orders of magnitude less lysozyme than does human milk. Now, El... More...

Hemagglutinin and neuraminidase, the major envelope glycoproteins of influenza viruses, are the primary targets of the protective immune response to influenza A viruses. That protection is most efficiently mediated by neutralizing antibodies, whose induction likely provides the basis for the prot... More...

In cases of anthrax, previous observations have shown that all animals have large numbers of dormant spores in their lungs, but the timing of spread of the infection out of the lungs varies significantly among animals. These observations led Tod Merkel and colleagues of the U.S. Food and Drug Adm... More...

ABRCMS Student Presentations Judges Needed! ABRCMS invites research scientists to volunteer with student presentations. More than 1400 students present research findings at the conference each year. Sign up and be a part of this community helping to enrich students' re... More...

9–12 September 2012.

General biology textbooks often depict the prokaryotic cell as an oval of homogenous-appearing cytoplasm surrounded by two membranes-a simplified image to contrast with a well-organized, feature-laden eukaryotic cell. While many would agree that the absence of a membrane-bound nucleus defines the... More...