Microbe Magazine

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Rephrasing the Biofuel Question
Breaking new ground in biological engineering, some scientists are asking whether microbes can make jet fuels. The answer to this question is, amazingly, yes. In light of the challenges posed by global warming, synthetic biologists are engineering microbes to produce biofuels and other commoditie...
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Biocontainment Labs: Some in Use, Others Stymied by Public Outcry
The spore-carrying anthrax letters circulated shortly after terrorist attacks in 2001 jolted the U.S. federal government into reinvigorating research programs focused on infectious agents that naturally threaten public health as well as those that could be weaponized. The National Institute of Al...
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The Coming Revolution: Microbes and Multiscale Biology
Microbes continue to be at the cutting edge of research—particularly in the arena of multiscale biology, where many dimensions of data are combined to form fuller and more dynamic pictures of specific microorganisms. Where we once relied on Southern blots to examine single genes, we can now chara...
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