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Mitochondria and Legionella infections in the social amoeba. The image shows multicellular fruiting bodies (gold) of the social amoeba or cellular slime mould, Dictyostelium discoideum. The fruiting bodies are 1-2 mm high. The rough outline of a single amoeba (magenta) encloses mitochondria (green, GFP fluorescence) and four Legionella pneumophila (red, DsRed fluorescence) that have infected the cell. The diameter of the cell is approximately 12 μm. In this issue of DMM, Francione et al. report that chronic AMPK signaling causes mitochondrially diseased Dictyostelium cells to support intracellular Legionella proliferation better than wild-type cells. Image by P. R. Fisher and P. E. Taylor. See research article on page 479. - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
IN THIS ISSUE
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
JOURNAL CLUB
EDITORIAL
COMMUNITY NEWS
A MODEL FOR LIFE
Taking translational research to heart: an interview with Sir Magdi Yacoub
Sir Magdi Yacoub is a founding editor of DMM, whose work as a cardiac surgeon and researcher has devised new operations for congenital and acquired heart disease, and has advanced heart and heart-lung transplantation techniques. He and his collaborators have studied the sophisticated functions of living heart valves and are using stem cells to produce a tissue-engineered valve that can reproduce their functions. Here, he discusses with fellow DMM founding editor Nadia Rosenthal, how his career evolved and why he hopes research will put heart surgeons like himself out of business.
CLINICAL PUZZLE
PRIMER
PERSPECTIVE
RESEARCH ARTICLE
RESOURCE ARTICLE
ERRATUM
New Special Issue: Translating Multiscale Research in Rare Disease. Edited by Monica Justice, Monkol Lek, Karen Liu and Kate Rauen.
This special issue features original Research, Resources & Methods and Review-type articles that aim to interrogate the mechanisms of rare diseases to foster meaningful clinical progress in their diagnosis and treatment.
The role of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) guidelines in disease modelling
The ISSCR provides comprehensive guidelines and standards for using human stem cells in biomedical research. In this Editorial, Cody Juguilon and Joseph Wu discuss how and why these should be incorporated in disease modelling research.
Subject collection: Building advocacy into research
DMM’s series - Building advocacy into research - features interviews, ‘The Patient’s Voice’, with patients and advocates for a range of disease types, with the aim of supporting the highest quality research for the benefit of all patients affected by disease.
Read & Publish Open Access publishing: what authors say
We have had great feedback from authors who have benefitted from our Read & Publish agreement with their institution and have been able to publish Open Access with us without paying an APC. Read what they had to say.
Biologists @ 100 - join us in Liverpool in March 2025
We are excited to invite you to a unique scientific conference, celebrating the 100-year anniversary of The Company of Biologists, and bringing together our different communities. The conference will incorporate the Spring Meetings of the BSCB and the BSDB, the JEB Symposium Sensory Perception in a Changing World and a DMM programme on antimicrobial resistance. Find out more and register your interest to join us in March 2025 in Liverpool, UK.