Flu season could kick off ‘incredibly’ early — what scientists are watching
A variant of the H1N1 influenza virus is dominating flu season in the Northern Hemisphere so far this…
How bacterial immune systems sense phage infection
Georjon, H. & Bernheim, A. The highly diverse antiphage defence systems of bacteria. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 21, 686–700…
AlphaFold ‘goes viral’: database adds protein complexes of common viruses
Thousands of protein pairs from disease-causing viruses, such as monkeypox virus, have been added to the protein-structure database…
Ambient temperature is encoded in the metagenome of microbial communities
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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…