Microbial Minutes: Fungi in C. diff Infection, Engineering Genomes
What's hot in the microbial sciences? ASM summarizes microbiology news and reports in Microbial Minutes, a biweekly news roundup. Watch the YouTube session for summaries and major findings, and read the reports and news coverage for yourself below. What should we highlight next time? Leave a suggestion in our comments section!
Stewart D.B. et al. Integrated Meta-omics Reveals a Fungus-Associated Bacteriome and Distinct Functional Pathways in Clostridioides difficile Infection. mSphere. August 28 2019.
Wang K. et al. Programmed Chromosome Fission and Fusion Enable Precise Large-Scale Genome Rearrangement and Assembly. Science. August 30 2019.
Stewart D.B. et al. Integrated Meta-omics Reveals a Fungus-Associated Bacteriome and Distinct Functional Pathways in Clostridioides difficile Infection. mSphere. August 28 2019.
- ASM Press Release: Clostridioides difficile Infections May Have a Friend in Fungi
- MedPage Today: Do Fungi Play a Role in C. diff Infection?
- Microbial Minutes: C. diff survives disinfection
Wang K. et al. Programmed Chromosome Fission and Fusion Enable Precise Large-Scale Genome Rearrangement and Assembly. Science. August 30 2019.
- Science News coverage: Forget Single Genes: CRISPR now cuts and splices whole chromosomes
- Microbial Minutes: Recoded E. coli Genome
