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Gut microbial ethanol metabolism contributes to auto-brewery syndrome in an observational cohort
Painter, K., Cordell, B. J. & Sticco, K. L. Auto-Brewery Syndrome (StatPearls Publishing, 2025). Bayoumy, A. B., Mulder,…
Large-scale analysis of bacterial genomes reveals thousands of lytic phages
Identification of lytic phages in bacterial assemblies To identify complete lytic bacteriophage genome sequences within bacterial genome assemblies…
how a person’s earliest flu infections dictate life-long immunity
Every summer, Aubree Gordon, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, spends about a month…
STREAMS guidelines: standards for technical reporting in environmental and host-associated microbiome studies
New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM, USA Julia M. Kelliher Department of Microbiology, Genetics, and Immunology, Michigan State…
Antibodies and T cells join forces for sustained HIV remission – Nature
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virologist whose enzyme discovery transformed understanding of cancer and HIV/AIDS
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four charts show where and how
People with measles are barred from entering a hospital in Canada, which has seen a surge in cases…
Structure-guided design of a synthetic bile acid that inhibits Clostridioides difficile TcdB toxin
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Exploring the concept of bacterial memory
Richards, B. A. & Frankland, P. W. The persistence and transience of memory. Neuron 94, 1071–1084 (2017). Article …
Assembly, architecture and functional roles of microbial surface layers
Silhavy, T. J., Kahne, D. & Walker, S. The bacterial cell envelope. Cold Spring Harb. Perspect. Biol. 2,…
Genome sequencing for prevention of health-care-associated bacterial infections
WHO Team Infection Prevention and Control (IPC). Global report on infection prevention and control. WHO https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240051164 (2022). Warren,…