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Profile of Richard P. Novick

Richard Novick, Professor of Microbiology and Medicine at New York University (NYU, New York, NY), has made critical discoveries about MGEs in staphylococci. In his Inaugural Article published in this issue, Novick, who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006, details the mechanism of replication of a fascinating member of the MGE family (1).