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A mysterious illness known as "machine workers' disease," or hypersensitivity pneumonitis, that has been occurring among machinists is one step closer to being better understood as scientists have identified 33 proteins in M. immunogenum that seem to be involved in triggering the immune response... Read More

It appears that some superbugs have evolved to develop the ability to manipulate the immune system to everyone's advantage. A team of researchers at The University of Western Ontario, led by Joaquin (Quim) Madrenas of the Robarts Research Institute, has discovered some processes that reduce the ... Read More

Researchers at the Institute of Food Research (IFR) in Norwich, UK., have shown for the first time that salmonella relies on glucose for its survival; raising the possibility of vaccine protection against this food-borne illness and other disease-causing bacteria, including super bugs.

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"The Lascaux cave in south-west France houses invaluable animal paintings that are between 16,000 and 17,000 years old, making them among the oldest examples of cave art ever found. Now conservationists must deal with the twin threats of the Fusarium solani fungus and the new bacterial populatio... Read More

The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and an international committee of taxonomists – scientists responsible for species exploration and classification – today announce the top 10 new species described in 2008. On the list are a pea-sized seahorse, caffe... Read More

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have used antibody-coated immunomagnetic beads (IMBs) to detect Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague.

While similar techniques are often used to detect various bacterial species, the methods must be altered to suit specific p... Read More

Yes, going gluten free is trendy. And foregoing products made from wheat like bread, cookies, cakes and other processed foods is necessary for people with celiac, an auto-immune problem caused by gluten, a protein in wheat. But when there’s trendy, there’s always folks ready to trash the trend n... Read More

The nose knows.  Microorganisms produce odors in a wide variety of ecosystems, causing a wide range of environmental, medical, and other issues. Examples include bacterial-associated human odors, odors related to livestock and pets, wastewater, foo... Read More

One of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in recent history, the recent Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak in 2008 associated with produce, stymied many public health investigators, epidemiologists, and food industry experts for an extended period ... Read More

The answer to the looming fuel crisis in the 21st century may be found by thinking small, microscopic in fact.  Microscopic organisms from bacteria and cyanobacteria, to fungi to microalgae, are biological factories that are proving to be efficient... Read More

Over half of all new diseases in humans since 1940 have jumped from animals to humans and researchers predict that the bulk of new and emerging diseases in humans over the next century will come from domestic animals and wildlife.  Anthropozoonoses... Read More

What is metabolomics? Oh, that's easy. It's the study of the metabolome. Very good. Now, what is the metabolome?

* the collection of all metabolites in a biological organism, which are the end products of its gene expression. (Source)
* the complete set of small-molecule metabolites ... Read More

Panelists at the American Society for Microbiology's round table on open science address questions on citation impact of open science and distribution of research, the impact of being covered by the New York Times, article half-lives, scientific society finances, open access scientific softwa... Read More

Panelists at the American Society for Microbiology's round table on open science address questions on whether the scientific results and outcomes of the public's tax funded scientific research should be available immediately and free online. Also in this clip are questions about peer review a... Read More

Panelists at the American Society for Microbiology's round table on open science address questions on whether the scientific results and outcomes of the public's tax funded scientific research should be available immediately and free online.

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Joseph Deken, Ph.D., Director/Res Prog Dev, UCSD, Samuel Kaplan, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics , University of Texas-Houston Medical School and former Chair of ASM's Publications Board, and Rosie Redfield, Ph.D., Redfield Lab, University of B... Read More

Chris Condayan, Manager, Public Outreach, for the American Society for Microbiology and Stanley Maloy, Ph.D., Dean, College of Sciences and Associate Director, Center for Microbial Sciences at San Diego State University, introduces the Open Science round table discussion at ASM's General Meet... Read More

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The next flu pandemic may be hibernating in an Arctic glacier or frozen Siberian lake, waiting for rising temperatures to set it free. Then birds can deliver it back to civilization.

New research suggests an influenza virus could go into hiding in the ice when earlier generations of humans, b... Read More

US scientists claim to have successfully used bacteria to create cheap, environmentally-friendly biofuels.

According to research presented at the annual general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, these microscopic organisms are "biological factories" that can serve as alternati... Read More