ASM Launches mSphere

ASM Launches mSphere

We live in an exceptionally dynamic and exciting time for the life sciences, in which our ability to acquire and disseminate knowledge is rapid, global, and everchanging. Technological advances have altered the way in which most life sciences laboratories operate. When I was a postdoc, substantial effort was needed to master basic molecular biology techniques that were complicated at the time b...

ASM Launches mBio

With this issue, ASM launches a new, interdisciplinary journal designed to accommodate the universe of microbiology and its allied disciplines under one roof. While perusing the pages of this first issue of mBio, one will note that there are articles addressing a myriad of questions in virology, bacteriology, mycology, parasitology, immunology, ecology, and basic cell biology. To have papers fr...

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NIEHS Launches Clearinghouse

-The effects of cis-dichlorodiammine platinum II (DDP) on the intestinal mucosa and the kidney were studied after single and multiple treatments with intervals of 7-45 days. After a single treatment, the jejunal epithelium underwent a transient interruption of cell proliferation followed by a hyperplastic recovery and return to control proliferative rate on Day 7. Subsequent treatments led to s...

Infrasound Detection of Rocket Launches

The satellite launch industry is a multi billion-dollar international industry with over 100 commercial and military satellite launches conducted in 1999 alone. Rocket launches from both Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) and Vandenburg Air Force Base (VAFB) have been observed at operational infrasound stations monitored by the Prototype International Data Center (PIDC). As more IMS infra...