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Microbiology for Gastronomes p.544
Bernard Dixon
Food, wine, and microbial answers to undesirable bitterness and inappropriate penicillin formation were on the agenda for the 10th European Congress on Biotechnology, held recently in Madrid, Spain

HHS Promises To Boost BSE Research, Monitoring Efforts p.546

Microorganisms: Study Locally, Think of Them Globally p. 547

Fly Saliva-Based Vaccine Protects against Leishmaniasis p.548

Oxidative Stress to Symbiotic Microbes Leads to Coral Bleaching p. 549

Health Canada Halts Sale and Use of Swine Antibiotic p.551

I'll Have the Chopped Liver Please, or How I Learned To Love the Clone p.555 [PDF]
Stanley Falkow
A recollection of some of the events surrounding one of the pivotal experiments that opened the era of DNA cloning

Nucleic Acid-Based Tests Move Slowly into Clinical Labs p.560 [PDF]
William Check
Sample preparation problems, contamination, and entrenched attitudes slow but cannot stop adoption of analytically diagnostic methods

Reconstructing Microbial Pathogenesis p.566 [PDF]
Denise Kirschner
Mathematic models can simulate the complex dynamics between host and pathogen during various phases of infection

Disregarding Priority Publications: a Violation of Scientific Ethics p.541

ASM Abstracts: Does Weight Equal Quality? p.541

The Power of the Internet p. 542