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,…
Current and projected effects of climate change in cryosphere microbial ecosystems
Fox-Kemper, B. et al. Ocean, Cryosphere, and Sea Level Change 1211–1362 (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge Univ.…
How nutrient starvation impacts the gut microbiome
Kjelleberg, S. Starvation in Bacteria (Springer, 1993). Finkel, S. E. Long-term survival during stationary phase: evolution and the…
Polymyxin B lethality requires energy-dependent outer membrane disruption
Fanous, J. et al. Limited impact of Salmonella stress and persisters on antibiotic clearance. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08506-6 (2025). Article …
Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections
Isolation and characterization of phages against Enterobacter isolates from The Alfred Hospital The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia,…
Growth and development of two predator species fed a diet of genetically engineered mosquitoes | Parasites & Vectors
Genetically engineered Anopheles coluzzii The genetically engineered AcTP13 strain of An. coluzzii used in these experiments was developed…
Deep learning reveals antibiotics in the archaeal proteome
Deep-learning-guided identification of archaeasins We collected 18,677 non-redundant reviewed protein sequences from 233 archaeal organisms available on UniProt10…
Healthy Life: Ancient viruses in our DNA may hold clues to what makes us human | Healthy Life
Fragments of ancient viral DNA once dismissed as “junk” may play a role in controlling our genes, according…
Florida Cat Named Pepper Brings Home Never-Before-Seen Virus—for the Second Time
Last year, Pepper, a pet cat who roams the backyards of Gainesville, Florida, helped a scientist discover a…