MicrobeWorld

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier,  Read More

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson review evidence that ... Read More

El podcast del microbio Nº 350 summarize the article writen by Nasir A, Kim KM, & Caetano-Anolles and published in BMC evolutionary biology on the hypothesis that giant viruses (mimivirus) are a fourth doma... Read More

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Tomorrow starts the XVIII International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria Conference here in Rio de Janeiro. I read Peter Hotez will be participating in a round-table session on “What is the future role of academic journals in the research, c... Read More

El podcast del Microbio Nº 349 summarize the article by Bardina et al published in Applied and environmental microbiology on the use of phages for reducing Salmonella colonization in poultry. El podcas... Read More

In this blog entry, I discuss some recent work at the intersection of art and microbiology. I go on to show how this intersection can be useful in the classroom. Read More

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Many protozoan parasites (Trichomonas, Leishmania, Giardia, Plasmodium, Entamoeba, Nagleria, Eimeria, Cryptosporidium) are infected with viruses. These viruses do not infect vertebrates, but their double-stranded RNA genomes are sensed by the innate immune system, leading to inflammatory complic... Read More

In episode 65 of MicrobeWorld Video, Dr. Stan Maloy talks with Natalie Prystajecky Ph.D., Environmental Public Health Microbiologist, BCCDC Public Health Microbiology and Referen... Read More

The virus that is causing alarm among global public health authorities after it killed a man in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia earlier this year and is now linked to two other cases of disease is a novel type of coronavirus most closely related to viruses found in bats, according to a genetic analysis to ... Read More

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove,  Read More

This video shows you how a Class 1 microbiological safety cabinet works. Read More

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove,  Read More

This episode: Identifying the microbial communities of the lungs!

 

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The Koala retrovirus (KoRV) continues to spread within Australia, according to results of a new analysis of a larger sample size from a wider geographical range than was previously studied. Read More

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Harmit Malik

Vincent is joined by special ... Read More

Clinical microbiologists uncover new and important pathogens, perform the role of sentinels to alert of possible upcoming epidemics, provide statistical and clinical information regarding the pathogens currently on the scene, and spur demands on research to create novel diagnostic tools. In fact... Read More

El podcast del Microbio Nº 335 and 336 is dedicated to the description of deat-cell pathways in Escherichia coli bacteria. El podcast del Microbio Nº 335 y 336 están dedicados a la descripción de las r... Read More

This episode: Gut bacteria use phages to beat their competition!

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The new season of El podcast del Microbio has begun. The radio broadcast Nº 331, 332 and 333 are dedicated to Francisco Javier Balmis, the Spanish physician who headed an 1804 expedition to Spanish America t... Read More