The word "microbiology" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the study of microscopic organisms or the branch of biology that studies the growth, structure, and other characteristics of microscopic organisms. For example: "The students in the microbiology lab were excited to study the microbial structure of bacteria."
For Peter Els, a retired 70-year-old loner in rural Pennsylvania, and the anti-hero of Richard Powers's 11th novel, "Orfeo", the answer lies in microbiology.
This would be a feat, mixing design, engineering and biochemistry and microbiology.
Attitudes to hygiene in the West have evolved not only with modern medicine and microbiology.
Even before the hearings began last week, the three members of the committee headed by Sir Nicholas Phillips, a judge, had attended lectures on subjects from microbiology to food hygiene, and trawled through stacks of scientific papers.
At the end of 2000, 48% of Internet users were English speakers, but this figure is expected to fall to 32% by the end of 2002.Unfortunately, MT systems work best when they have been customised for a particular subject area, such as microbiology, aerospace or particle physics.
Dr Venter has offered his invention for patenting an action that is sure to be controversial and the watermark will thus stake out what he hopes will become the property of his firm, Synthetic Genomics.Once the finished genome was inserted into the genome-free bacteria, the work regressed to the sort of microbiology that would have been familiar to the science's 19th-century pioneers.
This month, at a meeting of the American Society of Microbiology in Orlando, Florida, Dr Alekshun and Dr Levy will unveil the crystal structure of the MarR protein, a discovery that makes it easier to find molecules that will interact with it.
The American Society of Microbiology, which published the mousepox paper, has introduced a policy of challenging the authors of provocative papers to consider their wider implications.Plenty of scientists have squared work on bioweapons with their consciences in the past, and 9,000 of them used to work in the Soviet biological weapons programme.
The resulting colonies were then analysed to find out what strain of bug they had grown from.Ms Glad and Dr Sundset report, in BMC Microbiology, that they were able to isolate only four strains of bacteria that carried blaTEM genes.
His jokey experiment, reported in the July issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, opens up the possibility that gold deposits, too, may have a bacterial origin, with the microbes acting as the agent that concentrates gold from sources such as volcanic springs into a form that people can mine.Dr Lovley has some support among geologists.
Chain served as the director of the International Research Centre for Chemical Microbiology, Superior Institute of Health, Rome, from 1948 until 1961.
