Past issues

Emerging Opportunities

The October 2024 edition of Microbiology Today is titled 'Emerging Opportunities.' This issue explores the use of bacteria to redefine our life on Earth and the role of microbes in space exploration. This issue looks at the opportunities microbiology provides for all of us.

Emerging Threats

The May 2024 edition of Microbiology Today is titled 'Emerging Threats'. This issue explores threats from climate change to artificial intelligence, this issue explores a wide range of threats that microbiologists and the wider community face.

Knocking Out AMR

The October 2023 edition of Microbiology Today is titled 'Knocking Out AMR'. This issue explores some of the challenges and most recent advancements within antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research.

Industrial Microbiology

The May 2023 edition of Microbiology Today is titled 'Industrial Microbiology'. This issue explores the fascinating world of industrial microbiology, from career advice on how to break into the field to insights into how industry is using micro-organisms to solve global challenges.

Protists

The October 2022 edition of Microbiology Today is titled 'Protists'. This issue highlights the importance of protistology research and engagement activities in collaboration with Protistology-UK.

Engaging Microbiology

The May 2022 edition of Microbiology Today is titled 'Engaging Microbiology'. This issue highlights the importance of teaching and outreach in championing and advancing the understanding of microbiology.

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

The October edition of Microbiology Today is titled 'SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19'. This issue is dedicated to showcasing microbiologists' collaborative efforts to build our understanding of SARS-CoV-2, since its emergence, to improve COVID-19 management and prevention.

Life on a Changing Planet

The May edition of Microbiology Today is titled 'Life on a Changing Planet'. Through each of our featured articles, the authors explore the chronic changes that have been inflicted on Earth's climate and how the microbial world has adapted, been impacted and how microbes could potentially offer solutions.

Fleming Prize Winners

In this special anniversary edition of Microbiology Today, we are placing the spotlight on previous Fleming Prize winners to demonstrate why Microbiologists matter. Through a series of interviews, the winners share their career experiences and provide their personal take on the importance of microbiology.

Why Microbiology Matters

The theme of this special anniversary edition of Microbiology Today is ‘Why Microbiology Matters’, and it includes seven sections containing articles that provide examples of the many ways microbiology is important to our lives and the world around us.

Natural Products and Drug Discovery

Natural Products and Drug Discovery are the topics explored in the November edition of Microbiology Today. Various potential sources of novel drugs are discussed, with the featured articles examining the promise of foods such as honey and garlic, as well as bacterial products. The repurposing of existing drugs is another topic covered in the featured articles, as well as the process of drug development from an industry perspective in the Comment piece.

Arboviruses and their Vectors

Microbiology Today August 2019 considers some of the viruses that are transmitted by arthropods and the arthropod vectors that carry them. The five feature articles look at how arboviruses affect plants, animals and humans alike and cover a range of topics, from overviews of specific arboviruses to how to control the spread of the diseases they cause by targeting the vectors that facilitate their transmission.

Metabolism, Health and Disease

The May issue of Microbiology Today focuses on the varied interactions between humans and micro-organisms in terms of metabolism, health and disease. This issue's feature articles focus on a range of microbes, including bacteria, viruses and fungi, looking at both the beneficial impact on human health and how they cause disease.

Oceans

The first 2019 issue of Microbiology Today explores microbes found throughout the world’s oceans. The five featured articles focus on a variety of micro-organisms, examining their wide-ranging roles within the marine environment and the impact they can have both in the sea and on dry land.

HIV and AIDS

The November issue of Microbiology Today explores the various topics surrounding HIV and AIDS. The five feature articles look at the different ways in which HIV and AIDS affect people around the world today, examining the individual stories of those suffering from the disease, diagnosis, associated infections and how conditions such as pregnancy can affect those that are HIV-positive.

Microbes and Food

The August 2018 issue of Microbiology Today focuses on the use of microbes and the roles they can play in food.

Microbial Tools

The May 2018 issue of Microbiology Today focuses on the use of micro-organisms as tools in a wide range of contexts. Throughout our feature articles, there is an emphasis on the beneficial ways in which microbes can be utilised, in areas as diverse as construction, pest control and the disposal of radioactive waste.

Imaging

This issue of Microbiology Today focuses on the variety of ways that humans have been able to view micro-organisms, including some of the cutting edge methods of showing microbes in closer, and higher quality, detail than ever before.

Microbiology in Popular Culture

Spanning television and film to books and video games, this issue of Microbiology Today features articles that examine and discuss how microbiology has been represented in popular culture.

Archaea

From extreme temperatures and highly acidic conditions to the insides of volcanoes and the depths of the ocean, a diverse group of microbes called archaea thrive in many places that most life can't survive. This August issue of Microbiology Today highlights the importance of archaea and our current understanding of them.