Abstract. Scientific publishing faces a credibility crisis driven to a very large extent by predatory journals, paper mills, and exploitative open-access (

Questionable science, lax regulations, and wellness culture have turned dietary supplements into big business.

Florida’s surgeon general said Sunday that he had not weighed the cost – in terms of infections, hospitalizations or deaths – of ending vaccine mandates in the state. But scientists who have done thos...

The totality of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism forms its natural microbiome. The interactions between the body and these microorganisms significantly influen...

npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Emerging antimicrobial therapies for Gram-negative infections in human clinical use

Bacteria can gain multiple resistance mechanisms in a single step by the acquisition of multidrug-resistance (MDR) plasmids, but it is unclear how antibiotic selection during the acquisition of MDR pl...

The mechanisms underlying bacterial chromosome configuration are not fully understood. Here, Spahn et al. show that the Escherichia coli nucleoid adopts a condensed, membrane-proximal configuration du...

Here the authors show that lab mice have retained ancient gut bacterial symbionts that diversified in parallel with rodent species, but the genomes of these gut bugs have accumulated mutational burden...

Dr Rebecca J Hall takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication '<a href="https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/mic.0.001548">Glucose alters the evolutionary…

Noteworthy — The modified nucleoside pseudouridine has many reasons to be considered a star among post-transcriptional RNA modifications. It was the first to be identified, in 1960. Incorporating it i...

The mechanisms underlying bacterial chromosome configuration are not fully understood. Here, Spahn et al. show that the Escherichia coli nucleoid adopts a condensed, membrane-proximal configuration du...

The recent application of artificial intelligence-based prediction of protein and protein complex structures by AlphaFold has revolutionized biology. Here, we give an overview of the tools that make t...

As infections pummel communities in the US, Mexico and Canada, fear of ‘the most contagious human disease’ grows

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its environment.

The last time a new class of antibiotics reached the market was nearly three decades ago—but that could soon change, thanks to a discovery by researchers at McMaster University.

To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others.

In the Patagonia region of southern Chile, there are “living rocks.”

Health officials warn raw milk is one of the riskiest foods people can consume, noting that prior to the required pasteurization of milk, up to 25% of foodborne illnesses came from it. As raw milk con...

Of superbugs and superheroes. Timeline 'R' Us – Explore devastating infections through the ages, alongside crucial scientific discoveries to help control them.

SUMMARYThe development of multicellularity represents a key evolutionary transition that is crucial for the emergence of complex life forms. Although multicellularity has traditionally been studied in...

by Fernando Baquero – We are commemorating the centennial of the first significant scientific hypothesis aimed at understanding the origin of life, published in 1924 by Alexander Ivánovich Oparin (18...

There is a linear relationship (known as a ‘growth law’) between the fraction of resources invested in ribosomal proteins and the rate of balanced growth of a bacterial population. Here Pavlou et al. ...

Whooping cough has been surging in the United States for months and the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests there are no signs of slowing.

Genome dilution limits cell growth by modulating the activities, rather than the concentrations, of RNA polymerases and ribosomes, and is accompanied by changes in proteome composition.

Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) is a powerful tool for visualising the spatial organisation of microbial communities. However, traditional FISH has several limitations, including ​​limited p...

Bacteriophages are a major component of the gut microbiome and are believed to play a role in establishment and stabilization of microbial communities…

Of superbugs and superheroes. Timeline 'R' Us – Explore devastating infections through the ages, alongside crucial scientific discoveries to help control them.

California health officials warned the public to avoid drinking one batch of whole raw milk from Raw Farm, which has issued a voluntary recall.

npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Insights into durability against resistance from the antibiotic nitrofurantoin

Most bacteria are polylysogens that carry multiple prophages integrated into the chromosome. These prophages confer advantages to their bacterial host…