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A pan-microbial sciences, open-access microbiology journal from the American Society for Microbiology.
Joined June 2015
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Check out what ASM has done in the year since signing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Publishers Compact: https://t.co/q2VdnhR0Er Have ideas for how the society can support the goals? We'd love to hear from you!
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How can a publisher help save the world? How can a professional society focused on microbiology make an impact on grand challenges like poverty, inequality, economic crises, and environmental...
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How does reinfection impact ongoing pathogen transmission? Using a songbird species & strains of its common bacterial pathogen, scientists find that reinfections may favor more harmful pathogen strains that can better overcome immune defenses. @mSphereJ: https://t.co/oaoGEwE18G
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L-threonine and L-serine as new players in the bioenergetics of Trypanosoma cruzi. Read more here: https://t.co/jCgyyg4LLa
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#mSphere of Influence: Stephanie Langel reflects on how 3 papers made an impact on her by uncovering critical pathways & mechanisms through which gut-derived IgA-secreting cells migrate to the mammary gland & secrete antibodies against intestinal microbes.
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In high school, I worked on a dairy farm, milking cows and caring for calves to save money for college. It was there that I first observed the critical link between milk quality and neonatal health....
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#mSphere of Influence: Luisa Berná reflects on how advances in three-dimensional genome organization have reshaped our understanding of parasite biology.
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The advances in the understanding of genetic material—its role in encoding and modulating the cellular forms and functions of all living organisms as well as its structure, compaction, and different...
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#mSphere Editor's Pick: Cell differentiation controls iron assimilation in the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta. https://t.co/XJtQdbZ3vq
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#mSphere of Influence: Pengjie Hu reflects on how three works have impacted his work on the evolution of virulence, resistance, and adaptation in human fungal pathogens.
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Invasive human fungal pathogens are a major cause of infectious morbidity and mortality, particularly in immunocompromised individuals, and they result in approximately 3.75 million deaths annually...
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#mSphere Editor's Pick: Exploring the differential localization of protein kinase A isoforms in Candida albicans. https://t.co/wb02k0YECW
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#mSphere Meeting Highlight: First-ever ASM Global Research Symposium on Microbes in Human Health in Tsinghua, Beijing, China
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The meeting was chaired by Jing-Ren Zhang and co-chaired by Qiang Ding, Tsinghua University, China, and covered an exciting range of topics across the scope of research on microbiology and human...
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A call for the United States to continue investing in science: https://t.co/UAEh7q2EVO
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The U.S. life science research mission is critical not only to human health and understanding the natural world but also to agriculture and food production, technological innovations, socioeconomic...
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#mSphere of Influence: Andrew Swafford reflects on how the simultaneous introduction to the evolution of vision, the sensory biology of chytrid fungi, and a classic paper by Vrba and Gould helped shape his thinking about sensory evolution.
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I was initially drawn to evolutionary biology by my fascination with the intertwined evolutionary histories of emergent characters and their component parts. But defining complexity in these charac...
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#mSphere Editor's Pick: Detection of chronic wasting disease prions in the farm soil of the Republic of Korea. https://t.co/13Jz8lKcwr
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#mSphere Editor's Pick: Dysregulation of lung epithelial cell homeostasis and immunity contributes to Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus disease severity. https://t.co/Qf8I8fLwPl
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#mSphere of Influence: Ningning Liu reflects on how two papers emphasized the non-negligible role of fungi in the host and demonstrated a connection between fungi and cancer.
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According to the latest clinical statistics, the number of cancer cases attributed to infections accounts for about 13% of cancer patients worldwide each year. Meanwhile, in China, nearly 30% of...
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#mSphere of Influence: Miguel Chiurillo reflects on how two articles made an impact on his understanding of the complexity of the Trypanosoma cruzi kinome and the challenges to unravel it.
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Protein kinases (PK) are key regulators of signal transduction pathways in eukaryotes. These enzymes catalyze the transfer of phosphate groups from high-energy phosphate-donating molecules to...
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#mSphere of Influence: Lori Huberman reflects on how an article impacted her by establishing technologies that open realistic possibilities for developing high-throughput screening methods to correlate phenotype to genotype in diverse fungal species.
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I enjoyed my biology classes, but it was not until I performed my first genetic screen as an undergraduate researcher that I knew biological research was what I wanted to do as a career. I worked in...
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#mSphere of Influence: Jigar V. Desai reflects on how three papers made an impact on his ongoing work investigating the cell-intrinsic and extrinsic regulation of complement and studying its impacts on mucosal and systemic immunity.
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From its initial description by Jules Bordet as the heat-labile component of serum responsible for bacterial clearance, the complement system proteins are now well regarded for their roles in host...
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#mSphere is excited to announce that Senior Editor Ira Blader will be taking the reins as Editor in Chief on July 1. Congratulations, Ira!
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ASM welcomes new Editors in Chief (EiC) for the Journal of Clinical Microbiology®, mBio®; mSystems® and mSphere®.
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