‘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…
how researchers harness pee and poo for science
As Mathilde Poyet ushers me through the Global Microbiome Conservancy’s laboratory in Kiel, Germany, I’m met with all…
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,…
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 Nature Napoleon’s soldiers who died in…
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 …
Common Food Ingredients, Including Caffeine, Weaken Antibiotics
Everyday substances like caffeine may alter how bacteria respond to antibiotics, according to new research. Scientists found that…
How did life get multicellular? Five simple organisms could have the answer
For some three billion years, unicellular organisms ruled Earth. Then, around one billion years ago, a new chapter…
turning algal protein into mock meat
“This photograph shows me checking microalgae at the TUMCREATE research campus in Singapore. It’s affiliated with several Singaporean…
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…