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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
Oncolytic Viral Therapies Offer One-Two Punch to Fight Glioblastoma
Currently available therapies are unable to extend glioblastoma patient survival past 20 months following diagnosis, so researchers are turning to viruses to help battle these tricky, invasive tumors.
Rita Algorri
CRISPR-Cas immune systems - TWiM 184
Sam Sternberg discusses his work on exploring and exploiting CRISPR-Cas immune systems, beginning as a graduate student with Jennifer Doudna, at a biotech start-up, and in his laboratory at Columbia...
Vincent Racaniello
Using yeast to generate new chocolate and beer flavors with Kevin Verstrepe…
You may know that beer is fermented, but did you know making chocolate requires a fermentation step? Kevin Verstrepen discusses how his lab optimizes flavor profiles of the yeast used...
Julie Wolf MTM, fermentation, Food Microbiology, yeast
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
New Technologies Aid Clinical Microbiologists and Mean New Career Opportuni…
New technologies mean change for clinical microbiology diagnostic laboratories, but they also present opportunities for career growth.
ASM Communications
ASM’s Agar Art Contest Featured on CBS News
ASM’s Agar Art contest was the focus of a report on the CBS News streaming network
ASM Communications
If You Give a Baby a Bath, and More Microbial Myths
A followup to the “Microbial Myths” Youtube video that examines what the literature has to say about microwaving sponges, bathing newborns, and using Bunsen burners as a part of aseptic...
Ada Hagan
Digesting the Indigestible: How Microbes are Chewing up our Big Plastic Pro…
As global plastic waste increases, science turns to specialized microbes to degrade previously non-degradable plastics.
Monika Buczek plastic, Environment, enzyme
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
Just Small Adults? Pediatric Considerations in Clinical Microbiology
There are many unique aspects to neonatal and pediatric clinical microbiology: sometimes a test is a bigger deal in kids than in adults, sometimes it’s a smaller deal - and...
Thea Brennan-Krohn
bioRxiv Subject Collection: Microbiology
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Tuesday, 18 September 2018
PolyA tracks and poly-lysine repeats are the Achilles heel of Plasmodium falciparum
Plasmodium falciparum, the causative agent of human malaria, is an apicomplexan parasite with a complex, multi-host life cycle. Sixty percent of transcripts from its extreme AT-rich (81%) genome possess coding polyadenosine (polyA) runs, distinguishing the parasite from its hosts and...
Zika Vaccine Shows Promise for Treating Deadly Brain Cancer
An international team of researchers has successfully deployed a Zika virus vaccine to target and kill human glioblastoma brain cancer stem cells, which had been transplanted into mice. In a...
ASM Communications
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
What Your Laboratory Can Do Regarding the VITEK 2 AST Card Recall
BioMérieux has recently recalled some of their antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) cards for gram-positive bacteria using the VITEK 2 system. To answer questions regarding use of Vitek 2 AST cards...
ASM Communications
Microbiome Serves as Sentinel for Nerve Gas Exposure
Exposure to banned nerve agents remains a major public health concern globally. One main problem is the difficulty of determining whether an exposure has occurred. Now, a new study demonstrates...
ASM Communications
Key Figure in Restoration of Puerto Rico’s Scientific Community to Speak at…
Dr. Juan S. Ramirez Lugo, a plenary speaker at ASM’s 2018 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), has mobilized a funding program to preserve and restore the Puerto...
ASM Communications
Carrier Status Matters in Foot-and-Mouth Disease
Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) is believed to be one of the most contagious pathogens of animals in its acute form; however, there is still controversy over whether it is transmissible...
ASM Communications
How to Prioritize Projects in a Corporate Company
Prioritization is something we all do daily, yet most of us never take time to formally develop the skill. We choose to go with our gut feeling, or what “makes...
ASM Careers
Laboratory Practices Subcommittee Offers Help with VITEK 2 Gram Positive AS…
VITEK 2 Gram-Positive AST Cards Recalled Due to False Results for Some MRSA Strains: What Can Your Laboratory Do?
Public and Scientific Affairs Board
Where Did Zika Go (and Will it Come Back)?
In 2016, stories of Zika filled news headlines, causing concern to mothers, travelers and anyone living in mosquito-inhabited areas. But in the last year, the (mosquito) buzz has significantly died...
Monika Buczek
Photon Factors Favor Fancy Fuels - BacterioFiles 355
Engineering yeast to control their metabolism using light and dark for the production of advanced biofuels and chemicals!
Jesse Noar Biofuels, yeast, Synthetic Biology
Coral Reefs in Crisis! A Discussion with Rebecca Vega-Thurber
How climate change is driving the death of coral reefs, and how the bacteria and viruses associated with the reef influence its health.
Karl Klose microtalk, corals, coral reefs
A Bacterial Compound May Fight an Important Crop Fungus
A new Applied and Environmental Microbiology report characterizes the ability of a bacterial compound to inhibit M. grisea growth, a characteristic that may prove useful in biocontrol of fungal infection of...
Julie Wolf
Announcing the 2019 ASM Award Winners
The 2018 American Society for Microbiology awards in research, education, and leadership have now been announced. ASM would like to congratulate all award winners for their achievements.
ASM Communications
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