‘Fire amoeba’ survives in hotter conditions than any other complex cell
Hot springs at at Lassen Volcanic National Park in California, where the heat-tolerant amoeba was discovered.Credit: Kelly Vandellen/iStock…
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…
Nevada Health Centers and Javara seeking participants for clinical trial | Local News
Nevada Health Centers, a federal Qualified Community Health Center (QCHC), and Javara, a research organization, continue to bring…
Industrial and agricultural chemicals exhibit antimicrobial activity against human gut bacteria in vitro
Comprehensive library of chemical contaminants To systematically assess the impact of chemical contaminants, we used a large library…
Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup
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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.…
DNA looping regulates transcription | Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Each of our cells usually has about 2 m (6 feet) of genomic DNA, which needs to be…
Powerful new antibiotic that can kill superbugs discovered in soil bacteria
A colony of Streptomyces coelicolor bacteria secretes an antibiotic compound (red) into the surrounding medium.Credit: Dr Jeremy Burgess/Science…
How Napoleon’s army met its doom: DNA reveals surprise illnesses had a role – Nature
How Napoleon’s army met its doom: DNA reveals surprise illnesses had a role NatureDNA Identifies 2 Bacterial Killers That…
EHD confirmed in deer deaths on Flathead Reservation | Montana News
FLATHEAD RESERVATION, Mont. — A virus known as Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease, or EHD, has been confirmed in deer…
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 …
Phages with a broad host range are common across ecosystems
Salmond, G. P. C. & Fineran, P. C. A century of the phage: past, present and future. Nat.…