Fungal Starship transposons for interspecies gene transfer
This Genome Watch article highlights how giant fungal Starship transposons may facilitate the horizontal transfer of smaller transposable…
Impacts of pollution on the soil microbiome
Rodríguez-Eugenio, N., McLaughlin, M. & Pennock, D. Soil Pollution: A Hidden Reality (FAO, 2018). Montanerella, L. et al.…
Program introduces Florida students to virology and pandemic preparedness
Thirty outstanding high school students from 18 communities across Florida arrived in Tampa last week for the Global…
Scientists discover why mouse liver cells resist hepatitis E virus
Mouse liver cells are not a suitable host for hepatitis E viruses. The Virology department in Bochum has…
Dengue virus infects memory B cells to evade immune defenses
Researchers at the University of Vermont Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine and Upstate Medical University in Syracuse,…
Mapping in-cell protein contact sites reveals hijacking of paraspeckles during influenza A virus infection
Immortalized cell lines Human A549 (86012804; ECACC) and HEK293T (CRL-3216; ATCC) cells were cultured in DMEM (11960044; Gibco)…
New battery-powered device detects Bundibugyo Ebola virus in thirty minutes
Professor Yasutoshi Kido of the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka Metropolitan University (OMU), in collaboration with K.K. DNAFORM…
Emergence of human pathogenic fungi in a changing climate
Weaver, A. K. et al. Estimating the exposure–response relationship between fine mineral dust concentration and coccidioidomycosis incidence using…
New viral library helps scientists study thousands of proteins
To prevent viruses from sickening or killing us – whether it’s an individual case of hepatitis B or…
COVID-19 vaccine boosters may protect against future animal coronavirus outbreaks
COVID-19 vaccine boosters not only protect against SARS‑CoV‑2 – the virus behind the most recent pandemic – but…
Voices of microbiome researchers in an artificial intelligence era
Competing interests The Global Grants for Gut Health (GGGH) Colloquium comprises researchers who have been selected as GGGH…
A phage puts a new spin on bacterial flagella
Transposon-encoded TnpB proteins are RNA-guided nucleases that use a transposon-encoded guide RNA to cleave DNA target sequences, promoting…