International Journal of Advances in Biology (IJAB) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal, addresses the impacts and challenges of Biology. The journal documents practical and theoretical results which make a fundamental contribution for the development of Biological sciences and applications.
Provides information about microorganisms, extremophiles and extreme habitats, as well as links to websites on the ecology, diversity and evolution of microorganisms.
Database that describes the complete genome sequence of E. coli K-12 MG1655, the nucleotide position and function of every its genes, several types of cellular regulation, and metabolic pathways.
Collection of information about biodiversity compiled collaboratively by hundreds of expert and amateur contributors. Contains pictures, text, and other information for species living or extinct and the hierarchy of life, phylogeny and evolution.
There is no official classification of prokaryotes, but the names given to prokaryotes are regulated. This website includes the nomenclature of prokaryotes and the nomenclatural changes as cited in the literature.
Online textbook used in an introductory microbiology class. Also available is a strain identifier table: a list of dozens of bacteria and their physical and physiological characteristics. Click on the link in the right hand side entitled "Enteric Strain Searching" to access this table.
On October 24, 1632, the Dutch tradesman and scientist Antonie van Leeuwenkoek, the inventor of the microscope, was born. He is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology", and considered to be the first microbiologist.
Health care workers in emergency departments are often carriers of the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), potentially putting patients at risk.
In the UK 164 people have died of variant CJD, which originally came from cows infected with BSE, and all cases to date shared the same version of the prion gene (MM). A new case has a different varian tof the gene (MV). Estimates are that up to 350 people could be affected in this new wave.
Researchers have have discovered a distinctive chemical signature for placental and cerebral malaria which kill hundreds of thousands of young children a year, giving the option of earlier,or more intense treatment in those who need it.