{"product_id":"the-new-microbiology-isbn-9781683670100","title":"The New Microbiology","description":"\u003cp\u003eMicrobiology has undergone radical changes over the past few decades, ushering in an exciting new era in science. In \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Microbiology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, Pascale Cossart tells a splendid story about the revolution in microbiology, especially in bacteriology. This story has wide-ranging implications for human health and medicine, agriculture, environmental science, and our understanding of evolution. The revolution results from the powerful tools of molecular and cellular biology, genomics, and bioinformatics, which have yielded amazing discoveries, from entire genome sequences to video of bacteria invading host cells. This book is for both scientists and especially nonscientists who would like to learn more about the extraordinary world of bacteria.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDr. Cossart's overview of the field of microbiology research, from infectious disease history to the ongoing scientific revolution resulting from CRISPR technologies, is presented in four parts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eNew concepts in microbiology introduces the world of bacteria and some recent discoveries about how they live, such as the role of regulatory RNAs including riboswitches, the CRISPR defense system, and resistance to antibiotics.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSociomicrobiology: the social lives of bacteria helps us see the new paradigm by which scientists view bacteria as highly social creatures that communicate in many ways, for example in the assemblies that reside in our intestine or in the environment.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe biology of infections reviews some of history's worst epidemics and describes current and emerging infectious diseases, the organisms that cause them, and how they produce an infection.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBacteria as tools introduces us to molecules derived from microbes that scientists have harnessed in the service of research and medicine, including the CRISPR\/Cas9 genome-editing technology.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe New Microbiology\u003c\/i\u003e takes us on a journey through a remarkable revolution in science that is occurring here and now. \u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: New Concepts in Microbiology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Bacteria: Many Friends, Few Enemies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Bacteria: Highly Organized Unicellular Organisms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 The RNA Revolution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 From the CRISPR Defense System to the CRISPR\/Cas9 Method for Modifying Genomes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Antibiotic Resistance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Sociomicrobiology: The Social Lives of Bacteria\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Biofilms: When Bacteria Gather Together\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7 How Bacteria Communicate: Chemical Language and Quorum Sensing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8 When Bacteria Kill Each Other\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9 Human-Animal Symbioses: The Microbiotas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10 Bacterium-Plant Symbioses: Microbiotas of Plants\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11 Endosymbiotic Relationships\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The Biology of Infections\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12 Pathogenic Bacteria, Major Scourges, and New Diseases\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13 The Multiple Strategies of Pathogenic Bacteria\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14 Pathogenic Bacteria in Insects\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15 Plants and Their Pathogenic Bacteria\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 16 New Visions in Infection Defense\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Bacteria as Tools\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 17 Bacteria as Tools for Research\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 18 Bacteria: Old and New Health Tools\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 19 Bacteria as Environmental Tools\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e \"A succinct and compelling narrative of the evolution of microbiology over the centuries\" (\u003ci\u003eEmerging Infectious Diseases\u003c\/i\u003e, June 2022)  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Microbiology\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst Edition \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMicrobiology has undergone radical changes over the past few decades, ushering in an exciting new era in science. In \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Microbiology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, Pascale Cossart tells a splendid story about the revolution in microbiology, especially in bacteriology. This story has wide-ranging implications for human health and medicine, agriculture, environmental science, and our understanding of evolution. The revolution results from the powerful tools of molecular and cellular biology, genomics, and bioinformatics, which have yielded amazing discoveries, from entire genome sequences to video of bacteria invading host cells. This book is for both scientists and especially nonscientists who would like to learn more about the extraordinary world of bacteria. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Cossart's overview of the field of microbiology research, from infectious disease history to the ongoing scientific revolution resulting from CRISPR technologies, is presented in four parts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eNew concepts in microbiology introduces the world of bacteria and some recent discoveries about how they live, such as the role of regulatory RNAs including  riboswitches, the CRISPR defense system, and resistance to antibiotics.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSociomicrobiology: the social lives of bacteria helps us see the new paradigm by which scientists view bacteria as highly social creatures that communicate in many ways, for example in the assemblies that reside in our intestine or in the environment.\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eThe biology of infections reviews some of history's worst epidemics and describes current and emerging infectious diseases, the organisms that cause them, and how they produce an infection.\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eBacteria as tools introduces us to molecules derived from microbes that scientists have harnessed in the service of research and medicine, including the CRISPR\/Cas9 genome-editing technology.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe New Microbiology\u003c\/i\u003e takes us on a journey through a remarkable revolution in science that is occurring here and now.","brand":"ASM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990297952485,"sku":"NP9781683670100","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781683670100.jpg?v=1761787252","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-new-microbiology-isbn-9781683670100","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}