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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 28/08/2026

The September issue is now online! Read about: 🔧Microbial engineering 📚FAIR microbial collections 🔄Crossfeeding in soil 🍄Candida infections/virulence 🛡️Antiviral defenses in bacteria 🦠Giant virus catalogue 🦟Plasmodium surviellance 💉Measles and much more! #MicroSky www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 03/08/2026

Our August issue is now online! Read about 🦟 Malaria drug resistance 🦠 Ebola persistence 💧 Groundwater microbiome 💉 FMT for urinary infection 🧠 Antimicrobials from prions 💊 Antifungal drug targets 🤖 Therapeutic BtBots 🧬 Bacterial evolution and much more! #MicroSky www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 01/07/2026

Walk through our July issue! Read about 💊Microbiome and AMR 🧊Permafrost microbes 🦠Phages and flagella ⚕️Cholera protection 💉Poxvirus vaccine design 🍄Commensal skin yeast and much more! www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v... #MicroSky

This photograph shows the entrance to Stordalen Mire, Sweden, near the Abisko Scientific Research Station in the margin of the permafrost zone. As rising temperatures thaw the underlying permafrost, ecological transitions in plant and microbial communities across the landscape are shifting the site from net carbon sink to net carbon source.

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 04/06/2026

Our focus issue on communicating microbiology is out now! Read about: 📢importance of communicating microbiology research 👶Bile acids for paediatric sepsis 🦠Drug resistance in Cryptosporidium 💉HIV neutralising antibodies 🌊Ocean metabolomics and more! #MicroSky www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 13/05/2026

Our May issue with a focus on technological advances in microbiology is out now! Read about 🌱defence evasion by plant pathogens 🦠E. coli capsule revival 💻multiomic microbiome integration 🐁chronic chikungunya infection 🦀 bacteria in cancer immunotherapy and much more: shorturl.at/Wtzkp #MicroSky

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 07/04/2026

Our April issue is out now featuring... 🔬the impact of foundational, discovery-based microbiology 🪱a nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora 🏥climate change driving antibiotic resistance 👁️human eye disease linked to aquatic virus transmission and more! 👇 www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 05/03/2026

Our March issue is out, featuring... 🤖the promise and pitfalls of AI 🙅gasdermins thwarting bacterial pathogens 🌽Trichoderma fungi for sustainable agriculture 🐛mechanisms of insect-bacterium mutualism 🫘microbiome impacts on chronic kidney disease ...and more 👇 www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 03/02/2026

Our Fabulous February issue is out now! 🌊Promoting marine C sequestration 💊Drug targets in Babesia 🦠Giant virus of amoeba ⚕️Autobrewery syndrome 🍄Commensal gut fungi 💉Polio vaccine success and much more! #MicroSky www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 09/01/2026

#NewResearch Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) can cause bacterial prostatitis, a prevalent and recurrent infection with high morbidity in men. Here they show that UPEC invades luminal prostate cells via a bacterial FimH and host PPAP receptor interaction #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 09/01/2026

#NewResearch Gut microbes can produce ethanol and contribute to auto-brewery syndrome. FMT can potentially treat individuals with this syndrome and improve symptoms. #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 09/01/2026

#NewResearch Infecting phages co-opt a bacterial protein to potentially faciliate genome degradation of competing phages #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 09/01/2026

New Review! Sang Yup Lee, Bernhard Palsson & Gi Bae Kim discuss how #AI can aid microbial gene function discovery www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 09/01/2026

New Microbe Matters! @relenski.bsky.social traces the legacy of Escherichia coli and how science is evolving to use this model organism in new ways #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 09/01/2026

New Perspective! Navigating the duality of Akkermansia muciniphila by Erica Grant, Elena Monzel & Mahesh Desai #microsky #microbiomesky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 05/01/2026

Nature Microbiology turns 10! 🎂 As a special treat, we take you back to the editorial team that started it all and then fast forward to take a peek into the future of microbiology through some brilliant microbiologists. #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 19/12/2025

A big thanks to all the authors, reviewers, and readers of Nature Microbiology for their love and support throughout the year. We are on a break & will be back on Jan 2nd, in what will be a very special year for us! In the meantime, enjoy a collage made by @francoismayer.bsky.social #MicroSky 🦠

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 01/12/2025

Our final issue of 2025 has gone live! 🫁pertussis prevention 🏭pollutants and gut bacteria 🕳️porins and resistance in E. coli 🧬many flavours of CRISPR 🦟fatal fungal attraction ...and more 👇 www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 20/11/2025

News & Views out now - Entomopathogenic fungi bait and kill insects with longifolene By Thiago Luiz Alves e Silva & Joel Vega-Rodriguez #microsky #malaria www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 05/11/2025

Read our November editorial: The complex path towards herpesvirus vaccines www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 03/11/2025

Dive into our November issue featuring: 🪆nested archaeal symbioses 🌱microbiota driven drought responses in plants 🏗️ BAM complex in Bacteroidota 💨microbial fermentative growth in the gut 🍸hospital-specific phage therapy cocktail and much more..! www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 10/10/2025

Meet our virology editor Julie Tai-Schmiedel at the Keystone meeting “Predicting and Responding to Emerging Viral Infections” next week! @julietai.bsky.social

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 01/10/2025

Some keen Observations in Our October issue! 🦠 Cancer microbiome 🌊 Marine microbes in warming oceans 🌐 broad-range phages 🧬 genetically minimised Salmonella 🔧 Viral infection mechanisms 🧪 Oxaloacetate antiviral defence and more, here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 03/09/2025

Savour the fine flavour of our September issue, featuring... 〰️Bacterial prions in phage defence 💊Antibiotics from archaea 🔺Spike complexes in Sabiá, Junin and Machupo viruses 🛡️Aggresomes and mRNA protection 🤝A call for early-career teams ...and more, here 👇 www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 01/08/2025

Get inspired to scale the challenges with our August issue! Read about: 🦟Fighting malaria 🕹️Remote controlled probiotics 🍄Antifungal resistance 💉mRNA vaccines against bacteria ⚕️Yellow fever vaccine 🫧Archaeal ribosomes 🦠giardia-host interactions and more. www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v... #MicroSky

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 03/07/2025

Beat the heat with the polar breeze from our July issue! Read about: ⏱️Slow-growing aeonophiles 🦠Persistence in bacteria ♻️gut bacteria and forever chemicals 🌀Flagellar motors 🧬plasmodium genome 💉evasive Herpes virus 👩‍🔬 Reviewer gender diversity and more #MicroSky www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 04/06/2025

Hang in there, our June issue has just flown in! Read about… 🦇Virus evolution in bats 👶Probiotics for neonates 🧠Typhoid toxin targeting the brain 🛡️Phage defense systems in V. cholerae 🍔An anti-obesogenic gut bacterium …and more👇 www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 06/05/2025

"Phollow" the link to our May issue to read about... 💥lysing bacterial pathogens ⛽microbial alkane oxidation 🌱importance of seed-borne bacteria 🙅‍♀️protective antibodies for norovirus 🚰E. coli in urban drinking water ...and more!👇 www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 02/04/2025

This is our April issue, oh yeah... 🐦H5N1 antiviral outcomes 💊Abx against N. gonorrhoeae 🌱P. syringae plant infection 🦟Circadian rhythms in malaria ...and more 👇 www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 06/03/2025

Marching into spring with our March issue! 💡Considering microbes in microplastic research 🌍 Climate change and harmful microbes 🧬 CRISPRi-ART for functional genomics 🦀 Gut microbiota and cancer therapy response and much more! #MicroSky Read here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

A false-coloured micrograph showing Nisseria gonorrhoeae and neutrophils

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 04/02/2025

Our February issue has invaded! Featuring... 🍬microbial GLP-1 & sugar preferences ☠️kill switches for M. tuberculosis 🦇a cache of bat RNA viral genomes 🏞️design & release of engineered bacteria ...and more, here👇 www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 12/01/2025

Check out our new EDITORIAL: Use microbes to tackle food insecurity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 10/01/2025

Our first issue of 2025 has gone live, featuring... 🥗microbial roles in diet and food insecurity 🛶freshwater microbial dynamics 📈SARS-CoV-2 spike evolution 🚨bacterial danger signals 🥔microbiomes forecasting spud vigor ...and more. Check it out here 👇 www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 02/12/2024

Our final issue of 2024 is out now! ☕Coffee habits shape your gut microbiome ❄️Tracking avian influenza in Antarctica ⚖️Fitness trade-offs in pathogens 🛡️Phage-encoded kinase defense and much more..! www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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