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JMM Editor’s Choice: an international network to tackle AMR
November 23, 2020
This month, Dr Tim Inglis discusses ‘The TACTIC experience: establishing an international, interdisciplinary network to tackle antimicrobial resistance’ which was chosen as Editor’s Choice for the October issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology.
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New microbes discovered in electronic waste, people and a mini pig
November 19, 2020
Each month, the Microbiology Society publishes the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM), which details newly discovered species of bacteria, fungi and protists. Here are some of the new species that have been discovered and the places they’ve been found.
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Coronastream: margins, machine learning and mechanisms
November 10, 2020
In this special blog series, medical microbiologists led by Dr Tim Inglis summarise some of the research that will be essential to inform COVID-19 countermeasures. Find out more about the project in Dr Inglis' Editorial 'Logic in the time of coronavirus', published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology.
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Microbiology Editor’s Choice: how do flagella interact with host membranes?
November 3, 2020
Each month, a manuscript published in our flagship journal Microbiology is chosen by a member of the Editorial Board. This month, the paper is titled ‘The interaction of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella Typhimurium flagella with host cell membranes and cytoskeletal components’ and was chosen by Dr Hana Sychrová.
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Coronastream: long COVID, waves around the world and genetic predisposition to pneumonia
October 27, 2020
In this special blog series, medical microbiologists led by Dr Tim Inglis summarise some of the research that will be essential to inform COVID-19 countermeasures. Find out more about the project in Dr Inglis' Editorial 'Logic in the time of coronavirus', published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology.
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Publish and Read Q&A
October 19, 2020
Publish and Read is a fee-free way for authors to publish Open Access (OA) articles in all of the Society’s journals – both the OA titles (Microbial Genomics and Access Microbiology) and the subscription titles like Journal of General Virology. Readers at Publish and Read institutions also get unlimited access to all paywalled content. To see whether your institution has signed up for fee-free OA, check the list of institutions on our website.
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CRISPR and Microbiology
October 12, 2020
Last week, the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Professors Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for their work on the genetic editing tool CRISPR-Cas9. In this blog, Professor David Grainger discusses some of the earliest research on CRISPR-Cas9 published in our flagship journal Microbiology.
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JMM Editor’s Choice: validating a rapid test for SARS-CoV-2
October 5, 2020
This month, Professor Arunaloke Chakrabarti discusses Validation of a single-step, single-tube reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA’ which was chosen as Editor’s Choice for the September issue of Journal of Medical Microbiology.
