Beyond publishing primary research papers

ABSTRACT Microbiologists, like scientists in any other biomedical field, are too engrossed in writing research papers.Aided by both expanding research programs and shrinking resources, this will continue for the foreseeable time.In thy art is murder oslo this editorial, I discuss a compelling need for all microbiologists to dedicate some time to wr

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Premortal data in the process of skeletal remains identification

Background/Aim.The carlsbad crush basic task of a forensic examiner during the exhumation of mass graves or in mass accidents is to establish identity of a person.The results obtained through these procedures depend on the level of perceptibility of post mortal changes and they are compared with premortal data obtained from family members of those

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The CouPSTU and TarPQM transporters in Rhodopseudomonas palustris: redundant, promiscuous uptake systems for lignin-derived aromatic substrates.

The biodegradation of lignin, one of the most abundant carbon compounds on Earth, has important biotechnological applications in the derivation of useful products from lignocellulosic wastes.The purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris is able to grow photoheterotrophically under anaerobic conditions on a range of phenylpropeneoid

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