March 2014: This Month in JoVE - Food-Related Motivation, Pathogens in the Deli, Diagnosing ALS, and Bioengineering Cells into Patterns

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Here's a look at what's coming up in the March 2014 issue of JoVE: The Journal of Visualized Experiments. This month, we have a special culinary focus with food-related articles from various JoVE sections. In JoVE Environment, we have a method for tracking the spread of the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. This foodborne pathogen contaminates all kinds of foods in the retail environment - including dairy, eggs, produce, meat, and fish. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Listeria sickens around 1,600 people in the United States every year, and is the 3rd leading cause of death related to food poisoning. Many cases of Listeria-related illness can be traced to contaminated deli meats, especially those sliced by retailers. To study how this potentially deadly pathogen spreads in retail environments, Sirsat et al. simulate bacterial contamination of deli meat using a fluorescent compound that glows under black light, focusing on the deli slicer itself as a

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