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This Is ASM
A 4-minute overview of ASM’s mission, members and accomplishments. Originally aired at ASM Microbe 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. This video covers the depth and breadth of the great research and...
ASM Communications
Tales of the Vault: a Common, yet Mysterious Organelle
Your cell’s vault organelles may be shrouded in mystery, but researchers are unlocking their potential to save lives and clean up the planet.
Janet Goins
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
Bringing the Laboratory Test to the Patient With Point-of-Contact Tests
Patient-centered or point-of-care testing is gaining in popularity—what does this mean for patients, the clinicians and laboratorians?
Audrey Schuetz
Designer Microbes: A Potential Living Cure for Crohn’s and Phenylketonuria
Designer microbes are coming to the rescue of patients suffering from two debilitating disorders that have no cure: PKU and Crohn’s Disease.
Monika Buczek
A new type of malaria vaccine utilizing the mosquito immune system with Car…
To eliminate malaria, you have to stop transmission. Carolina Barillas-Mury discusses the co-evolution of malaria, mosquitos, and man.
Julie Wolf
Crypto-metamorphosis - TWiM 186
The involvement of a microbiome in snail metamorphosis, and using Listeria to kill tumors.
Vincent Racaniello TWiM, microbiome, Listeria
Does a Minimal Genome Exist?
How can we define a minimal genome containing only the genes necessary for life - and what can we learn from these efforts?
Jennifer Tsang
Babbling Bacteria: A Discussion About Quorum Sensing with Marvin Whiteley
Dr. Marvin Whiteley talks about how and why bacteria talk to each other (quorum sensing), whether lab conditions can help us understand what a pathogen does inside a host, and...
Karl Klose quorum sensing, microtalk
Invasive Fungal Infections: a Creeping Public Health Threat
Invasive fungal infections were rare events until the mid-20th century. Why do fungi now kill more people each year than tuberculosis?
Ada Hagan
bioRxiv Subject Collection: Microbiology
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Tuesday, 16 October 2018
Diverse chemical compounds target Plasmodium falciparum plasma membrane lipid homeostasis
Lipid homeostasis is essential for the maintenance of life. We previously reported that disruptions of the parasite Na+ homeostasis via inhibition of PfATP4 resulted in elevated cholesterol within the parasite plasma membrane as assessed by saponin sensitivity. A large number...
Researchers Engineer Dual Vaccine against Anthrax and Plague
A team of researchers has now engineered a virus nanoparticle vaccine against Bacillus anthracis and Yersinia pestis, tier 1 agents that pose serious threats to national security of the United States.
ASM Communications
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
New Addition to the Sentinel Level Clinical Laboratory Protocols for Suspec…
A new Laboratory Response Network (LRN) protocol covers all aspects of sentinel laboratory biosafety, biosecurity, risk assessment, and biomedical waste management.
ASM Communications
Taking a Shot at Influenza with Educational Games
Written by Wilbur Chen | Educational board games can initiate important conversations about public health - all while participants have fun!
ASM Communications
elegans Endures Edifying Enterococcus - BacterioFiles 358
Roundworms and not-too-irritating bacteria quickly evolve a beneficial relationship when under threat from other bacterial pathogens!
Jesse Noar
Citing “Alternative” Sources for Microbiology Resource Announcements
Microbiology Resource Announcements Editors will permit citing alternative sources, when identified as such and where a permanent public DOI exists.
ASM Communications
New Leadership Elected to the Board of Governors of the American Academy of…
Four new Governors have been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology’s Board of Governors. Gail Cassell, Lynn Enquist, Mary Estes, and Carey-Ann Burnham will join the Board of Governors...
ASM Communications
Toddy tappers - TWiP 160
The case of the Electrician from Tamil Nadu with a Liver Mass, and discussing how dogs and humans share a common Chadian Guinea worm.
Vincent Racaniello TWiP, Parasitism
Let’s Veto Mosquitoes: A Discussion About Malaria with Gunnar Mair
Dr. Mair talks about why breaking the transmission cycle by focusing on mosquitoes will help reduce global malaria, how a multi-pronged approach is necessary to eradicate this disease, how public...
Staying below the ADAR - TWiV 514
This years crop of Nobel Prizes, and how cells prevent leakage of mitochondrial double-stranded RNA into the cytoplasm, which would otherwise lead to the production of interferon.
Vincent Racaniello TWiV, viruses, innate immunity, mutagenesis
ASM Attends FDA Commissioner’s Announcement of New Plan to Combat AMR
On Friday, September 14, The Pew Charitable Trusts hosted FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced the agency’s approach to reducing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through antibiotic stewardship and innovation.
Public and Scientific Affairs Board
Palmetto Finalizes LCD for Multiplex NAATs for Respiratory Viral Panels
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) subcontractor Palmetto MolDX has finalized its Local Coverage Determination (LCD) for Multiplex Nucleic Acid Amplified Tests (NAATs) for Respiratory Viral Panels.
Public and Scientific Affairs Board
Colossal Contagion Codes Catabolism - BacterioFiles 357
A new giant virus infecting marine algae brings its own genes related to fermentation, generating energy in the absence of oxygen!
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