Microbe Magazine

Orsay virus, recently discovered in a wild Caenorhabditis elegans strain, is the only known virus capable of naturally infecting this model organism. As many fundamental biological discoveries have been made in C. elegans, Orsay virus&... More...

Most cancer deaths are associated with metastasis. Predicting prognosis, which has much to do with metastatic potential, is critical to treatment management. That is, patients with good prognoses can be spared aggressive treatment, with its oft-debilitating side effects, but failure to pursue suc... More...

Nearly 40% of Americans—more than 120 million people—have diabetes or prediabetes. In earlier research, Raghavendra Mirmira of the Indiana University School of Medicine et al. showed that 12-lipoxygenase (12-LO) is present in pancreatic beta cells only in people who become overweight. 12-LO catal... More...

An extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa has emerged in northeast Ohio. First identified in a foot wound of a patient with type 2 diabetes in a long-term care facility in March 2012, the isolate has been found in six additional patients by investig... More...

High doses of radiation generally are deadly to all kinds of organisms, but among microbes, Deinococcus radiodurans is highly resistant. Michael M. Cox and colleagues of the University of Wisconsin generated a highly resistant strain of Esche... More...

An experimental vaccine protected 100% of animal models against the highly infectious and virulent bacterium Clostridium difficile after just two immunizations. The vaccine protected the animals against two purified toxins produced by C. diff... More...