Microbiology

• Single-celled life does a lot with very little

  Bacterial biochemistry mapped in detail.

  26 November 2009

• Flu-virus prevalence comes under scrutiny

  Projects to monitor antibodies seek true extent of H1N1 infection.

  24 November 2009

• Biologists rally to sequence 'neglected' microbes - Premium content

  For scientists, the thousandth microbial genome is just the start.

  17 November 2009

• Swine flu: One killer virus, three key questions - Premium content

  Nature reports from three laboratories scrutinizing the pandemic flu virus.

  11 November 2009

• Snapshot: Glider eavesdrops on whales - Premium content

  Probe tunes in to cetacean song.

  11 November 2009

• Brain disease treated by gene therapy - Premium content

  A treatment based on HIV finds first success in humans.

  5 November 2009

• Initiative targets malaria eradication - Premium content

  Focus shifts to blocking parasite transmission.

  3 November 2009

• Jury still out on HIV vaccine results - Premium content

  Some experts see hope in trial findings, but others say that the data do not back up such optimism.

  28 October 2009

• Fatal frog fungal disease figured out - Premium content

  Electrolyte imbalance stops amphibians' hearts.

  22 October 2009

• HIV vaccine trial under fire - Premium content

  Expert scrutiny casts doubt on 'historic' results.

  21 October 2009

• Flu virus behind infant pneumonia in poor countries - Premium content

  Viral infection precedes an unexpectedly large proportion of childhood pneumonia cases.

  5 October 2009

• Future of HIV vaccine unclear - Premium content

  Puzzling hints of success require explanation before trials can move forward.

  1 October 2009

• Q+A: Driven out of research - Premium content

  A virologist describes how stringent biosecurity regulations caused her to drop one line of work.

  30 September 2009

• Booming biosafety labs probed - Premium content

  US lawmakers and scientists at odds over how to regulate high-containment labs.

  30 September 2009

• High window on the past - Premium content

  Microbiologists find living stromatolites in the Andes.

  17 September 2009

• Vaccine venture boosts health hopes - Premium content

  Industry and academia join forces to develop cheap jabs against diseases that afflict the poorest.

  16 September 2009

• Potato blight's gene weaponry revealed - Premium content

  Jumping genes may hold key to defeating mould that caused Irish famine.

  9 September 2009

• Pandemic flu: from the front lines - Premium content

  Researchers describe the scientific and public-health challenges they face in battling the H1N1 virus.

  2 September 2009

• Scientists devise new way to modify organisms - Premium content

  Yeast cell surrogate may help scientists to engineer synthetic life.

  20 August 2009

• Staving off ecological disaster in lungs - Premium content

  Protecting the lung's 'ecosystem' may help cystic fibrosis patients.

  7 August 2009

• Immunology: Lights, camera, infection - Premium content

  Multiphoton microscopy is allowing immunologists to watch infections as they happen. Jeanne Erdmann pulls up a seat.

  29 July 2009

• Germany outlines synthetic biology strategy - Premium content

  Scientific opportunities must be balanced with ethical debate, says report.

  27 July 2009

• Wild chimpanzees get AIDS-like illness - Premium content

  Finding challenges long-held assumption.

  22 July 2009

• Regulators face tough flu-jab choices - Premium content

  Rich countries' pandemic strategies may cause vaccine shortages elsewhere.

  21 July 2009

• Cell biology: Ahead of the curve - Premium content

  Cellular life is all slopes, arcs and circles — but there is much debate about how these curves are built. Kendall Powell reports.

  15 July 2009

• Malaria drug-makers ignore WHO ban - Premium content

  Health agency calls for clampdown on artemisinin monotherapy.

  14 July 2009

• Science education: Reading, writing and nanofabrication - Premium content

  With its electron microscope, genetic sequencing machines and observatory, the Yokohama Science Frontier High School is equipped like no other. Will future scientists be inspired there, asks David Cyranoski.

  8 July 2009

• Science journalism: Breaking the convention? - Premium content

  Blogs and Twitter are opening up meetings to those not actually there. Does that mean too much access to science in the raw, asks Geoff Brumfiel.

  24 June 2009

• Patchy pig monitoring may hide flu threat - Premium content

  Experts call for increased surveillance of animals.

  16 June 2009

• Briefing: US ramps up swine flu protection - Premium content

  New technologies may help boost H1N1 vaccine production.

  3 June 2009

• Microscopic marvels: Seeing the system - Premium content

  3 June 2009

• Microscopic marvels: Microscope for the masses - Premium content

  3 June 2009

• Microscopic marvels: The big and the bold - Premium content

  3 June 2009

• Microscopic marvels: The naked microscope - Premium content

  3 June 2009

• Microbiology: Tinker, bacteria, eukaryote, spy - Premium content

  Bacteria and their hosts may reside in different kingdoms, but that doesn't stop them from intercepting each other's communications. Asher Mullard reports.

  13 May 2009

• Protein structures: Structures of desire - Premium content

  What do protein crystallographers dream of? The eukaryotic ribosome, the spliceosome, the nuclear-pore complex, the HIV trimer and almost any transmembrane protein, finds Ananyo Bhattacharya.

  6 May 2009

• How severe will the flu outbreak be? - Premium content

  Epidemiologists race to pin numbers on the global H1N1 spread.

  5 May 2009

• Nano-delivery could help tackle HIV - Premium content

  Tiny plastic particles could smuggle therapies into cells.

  3 May 2009

• Tests on H1N1 virus begin in UK - Premium content

  Virologists hope to investigate how swine flu could mutate to become more deadly.

  1 May 2009

• HIV's undercover route to infection - Premium content

  Virus needs to hitch a ride across the membrane before infecting cells.

  30 April 2009