Molecular Microbiology covers basic to translational research, studies of microbes (bacteria, archaea, eukaryotic microorganisms, and viruses) and systems.

Researchers shed new light on how copper poisons microbes

Stefanie Eben looks up at the camera with a smile. She is standing next to an anaerobic chamber.
Copper is deployed by our immune system to fight off pathogens and is also used in health care settings to stave off bacterial infections, but how the element does so is unclear. Now, research published in Molecular Microbiology by microbiologists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign...