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.…
Within-patient gene transfer between transiently and chronically infecting bacteria causes extreme antibiotic resistance during lung infections
Murray, C. J. L. et al. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis. Lancet…
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)…
A Deadly Ebola-Like Virus Is Spreading. Are We Ready?
A rapidly expanding outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo virus is exposing major gaps in how health systems detect…
Biologists pinpoint how common virus triggers multiple sclerosis
Epstein-Barr virus triggers specific T cells in the immune system, which leads to an attack on nerve cells…
Mobile genetic elements shape microbial diversity and functions in thawing permafrost soils
Data collection, metagenome assembly and binning, gene annotation and taxonomy assignment Our study site, Stordalen Mire, is a…
Complex multicellularity is linked with expanded specialized metabolite production in microorganisms
Fischbach, M. A., Walsh, C. T. & Clardy, J. The evolution of gene collectives: how natural selection drives…
Purine bias in bacterial genes is driven by runaway transcription
Strains B. subtilis strains were generated from 168 (bearing the trpC2 mutation), and E. coli genomic DNA was…
AI can design viruses, toxins and other bioweapons. How worried should we be?
It’s hard to imagine that a snail could kill a person, but a particularly venomous group of marine…
Next-generation probiotics: an outlook into current applications and future developments
Hill, C. et al. The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and…
Bridging continuous and discrete evolution through a controllable, hypermutagenic phage-bacteria system
General methods All E. coli and phage strains created in this study are listed in Supplementary Table 1,…
Nuclease–NTPase antiphage defence systems use conserved molecular features to control bacterial immunity
Roberts, R. J. et al. A nomenclature for restriction enzymes, DNA methyltransferases, homing endonucleases and their genes. Nucleic…