Microbiology

• FBI to reveal anthrax data

  Science of case will be submitted to peer-reviewed journals.

  19 August 2008

• Anthrax case ignites new forensics field - Premium content

  Biochemical method of tracking microbes hits the limelight.

  13 August 2008

• The AIDS fight: looking ahead to 2010 - Premium content

  Nine leaders give Nature their view.

  8 August 2008

• 'Virophage' suggests viruses are alive - Premium content

  Evidence of illness enhances case for life.

  6 August 2008

• Technological advances behind the anthrax investigation - Premium content

  Machines can quickly compare strains and pinpoint origin.

  6 August 2008

• Briefing: Whatever happened to bird flu? - Premium content

  The media frenzy over bird flu has receded, but the threat of a global epidemic still looms large.

  9 July 2008

• In brief: Pay-off agreed for expert fired after anthrax attacks - Premium content

  2 July 2008

• Translational research: Crossing the valley of death - Premium content

  A chasm has opened up between biomedical researchers and the patients who need their discoveries. Declan Butler asks how the ground shifted and whether the US National Institutes of Health can bridge the gap.

  11 June 2008

• Microbiology: The inside story - Premium content

  The human body teems with microbes. In this, the first of two features, Asher Mullard looks at the global efforts to catalogue this vast 'microbiome'. In the second, Apoorva Mandavilli meets the surgeons who have a rare opportunity to watch an ecosystem being established as they transplant guts from one person to another.

  28 May 2008

• Microbiology: Straight from the gut - Premium content

  The human body teems with microbes. In the first of two features, Asher Mullard looks at the global efforts to catalogue this vast 'microbiome'. In this, the second, Apoorva Mandavilli meets the surgeons who have a rare opportunity to watch an ecosystem being established as they transplant guts from one person to another.

  28 May 2008