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ASM and Research!America Unveil a Survey on Global Pandemics and Vaccines
A new national opinion survey shows American attitudes toward public health, vaccines and preparedness for epidemics
Stefano Bertuzzi
Fighting Ebola: What It Takes to Stop an Outbreak
Stopping an epidemic requires teamwork, communication and resources
Courtney Reyers
Scientists and Bioartists Create Stunning Microbial Artworks in ASM’s 4th A…
The American Society for Microbiology announces the winners of their 4th annual Agar Art contest. Submissions of artwork were created using living, growing microbes ‘painted’ on agar, a gelatin-like substance...
ASM Communications
Prevent What’s Preventable: Vaccine Preventable Diseases with Cherise Rohr-…
How the success of vaccines has ironically contributed to the rise of the anti-vax movement, how the way scientists talk about vaccines is important to increase vaccination rates, and the...
Karl Klose
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
Lyme Disease Testing: Old Tests, New Tests, and Other Tests
It’s Lyme Time! As summer approaches, ticks and people will meet up once again. Diagnostic tests for Lyme disease may change, but these changes should always based on scientific evidence.
Matthew Pettengill
ASM Partners with Smithsonian on “Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World”
Go see the Smithsonian exhibit “Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World,” which reminds us of the relationships encompassed in the One Health concept
Stefano Bertuzzi
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
Is It Really about the MIC?
The use of beta-lactamase combination agents like piperacillin-tazobactam to treat ESBL-producing isolates has always been somewhat controversial. Results from the new MERINO clinical trial suggest reviving ESBL testing. Romney Humphries...
Romney Humphries
9 ASM Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Nine ASM members are among the 84 new members and 21 foreign associates announced today by the National Academy of Sciences.
ASM Communications
The struggle to study hepatitis C virus with Charlie Rice
Charlie Rice gives the history of learning to grow hepatitis C virus in culture, from pitfalls to hurdles and successes along the 20-year journey. He also talks about yellow fever...
Julie Wolf hepatitis C, virus, yellow fever, meet the microbiologist, podcast
bioRxiv Subject Collection: Microbiology
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Friday, 25 May 2018
Characterisation of Antibody Interactions with the G Protein of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Indiana Strain and Other Vesiculovirus G Proteins
Vesicular stomatitis virus Indiana strain G protein (VSVind.G) is the most commonly used envelope glycoprotein to pseudotype lentiviral vectors (LV) for experimental and clinical applications. Recently, G proteins derived from other vesiculoviruses (VesG), for example Cocal virus, have been proposed...
Celebrating Global Health Accomplishments
Global health is a complex problem requiring collaborations between local, national and international groups. ASM is happy to celebrate its recent accomplishments achieved through the hard work of many collaborative...
Julie Wolf
Microbial communication via quorum sensing with Pete Greenberg
How bacteria can communicate based on cell density, a phenomenon he helped name quorum sensing.
Julie Wolf quorum sensing, meet the microbiologist, podcast
Synthetic Polymers May Help Stop Deadly Fungal Infections
Researchers who develop novel treatments for treatment-resistant fungal infections have found a new ally: Synthetic polymers.
ASM Communications
23 and ALL Of Us: Personalized Medicine via Microbiome Sequencing
Microbiome-based technologies: how to measure and manipulate our microbial cohabiitants and use that information to inform health decisions.
Monika Buczek microbiome, Personalized Medicine
ASM Journals Now Accepting Submissions in Any Format
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) recently announced that ASM Journals are now accepting initial submissions in any format to ease the submission process for authors.
ASM Communications
Many Americans say Infectious and Emerging Diseases in Other Countries Will…
An overwhelming majority of Americans (95%) think infectious and emerging diseases facing other countries will pose a ‘major’ or ‘minor’ threat to the U.S. in the next few years, but...
ASM Communications
Medical Microbiota Measurement - BacterioFiles 339
Fecal microbiota transplants work just as well when taken in pill form as when delivered through a tube!
Jesse Noar Bacteria, clinical trial, cdiff, Clostridium
Ebola Makona is the opposite of hakuna matata - TWiV 494
The ongoing outbreak of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the finding that mutations identified in the 2015 West African epidemic do not alter pathogenesis in...
Vincent Racaniello Ebola, pathogenesis, animals, vaccine
ASM Joins Laboratory Societies in Letters on Palmetto Coverage Determinatio…
ASM joins laboratory societies in two letters on the Palmetto Draft Local Coverage Determinations on Multiplex Nucleic Acid Amplified Tests for Respiratory and Gastrointestinal Panels.
Public and Scientific Affairs Board
Variations in Placental Microbiota Appear Related to Premature Birth
A team of researchers from the United Kingdom has found a surplus of pathogenic bacteria in placentas from premature births, supporting the hypothesis that maternal infection may cause preterm birth.
ASM Communications
Elio has lots of colanic acid - TWiM 176
The passing of Stanley Falkow, give E. coli an archaeal membrane, and how the microbiome can make worms live longer.
Vincent Racaniello TWiM, ecoli, microbiome
What It’s Like to Volunteer at a Science Festival
ASM was at the 2018 USA Science and Engineering Festival (USASEF) to capitalize on the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) buzz and raise awareness of the microbial sciences. Our...
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