The ability of Salmonella Typhimurium to exploit macrophages as a niche for survival, replication, and dissemination is central to its pathogenesis. T…

Diaz-del-Olmo et al. reveal how a Salmonella virulence protein alters the transcriptional layout of infected macrophages through hyperactivation of a transcription factor and coordinated chromatin rem...

Plasmids are now the primary vectors of antimicrobial resistance, but our understanding of how human industrialisation of antibiotics influenced their evolution is limited by a paucity of data predati...

Background Variation within the prokaryotic pangenome is not random, and natural selection that favours particular combinations of genes appears to dominate over random drift. What is less clear is wh...

The ability of Salmonella Typhimurium to exploit macrophages as a niche for survival, replication and dissemination is central to its pathogenesis. The effector SteE, which polarises macrophages into ...

Nature Medicine - A large single-cell transcriptomic-based reference model for hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells from 148 age- and sex-diverse individuals identifies physiological and...

A prospective observational study of human immune responses to vaccination after early-life antibiotic exposure shows that neonatal exposure reduces the immune response to several vaccine antigens and...

Brief ciprofloxacin exposure in humans drives antibiotic resistance evolution in gut bacteria through selective sweeps, particularly involving DNA gyrase mutations, which persist long after exposure a...

Differences between humans and experimental models create a translational gap that makes it difficult to extrapolate research findings. The authors review systems-focused approaches to identify and co...

A remarkable range of novel antibiotics is attracting increasing interest as a major new weapon in the campaign against bacterial infection. They are based on the toxic peptides that provide the innat...

Single-cell decisions made in complex environments underlie many bacterial phenomena. Image-based transcriptomics approaches offer an avenue to study such behaviors, yet these approaches have been hin...

Background Correlative structural and chemical imaging of biofilms allows for the combined analysis of microbial identity and metabolism at the microscale. Here, we developed pH-FISH, a method that co...

Transposable element exonization can yield functional protein isoforms as seen for primate-specific IFNAR2.

Nature - Discovery and engineering of the antibody response to a prominent skin commensal

Our findings propose a causal relationship between reduced IL-6 signalling and lower risk of tuberculosis, akin to the effect seen in other IL-6 mediated diseases. This study suggests that IL-6 antago...

Host-acting compounds are emerging as potential alternatives to combating antibiotic resistance. Here, we show that bosutinib, an FDA-approved chemotherapeutic for treating chronic myelogenous leukemi...

Ribozymes are small catalytic RNA sequences capable of nucleotide-specific self-cleavage found widespread in nature. Ribozyme cleavage generates distinct 2′,3′-phosphate and 5′-hydroxyl termini that r...

Nature Communications - The potential roles of post-translational modification of bacterial proteins in pathogenesis are not well understood. Here, Wang et al. show that posttranslational...

Examination of immunological changes in transgender individuals undergoing gender-affirming testosterone treatment reveals sex hormone-regulated pathways in humans and explains sex-divergent responses...

Staphylococcus aureus upregulates collagenase and proline transporters to release collagen-derived proline and exploit fibroblasts as a nutrient source during chronic infection.

Nature Communications - Intracellular bacterial infection triggers numerous innate immune responses. Here, Li et al. use intravital imaging to understand how L. monocytogenes invades the liver and...

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is an urgent public health threat with limited preventative options. In this work, we developed a messenger RNA (mRNA)–lipid nanoparticle (LNP) vaccine targeti...

Salmonella infections are a significant public health concern due to rising antimicrobial resistance. Salmonella survives primarily in macrophages during systemic (i.e. bloodstream) infection. We have...

Bacteria release ATP as part of their attack in sepsis.

In their recent Article,1 Jean-Michel Molina and colleagues provide not only further evidence of the efficacy of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) but also novel data showing that doxycyclin...

A systematic review shows that >58% of infectious diseases confronted by humanity, via 1,006 unique pathways, have at some point been affected by climatic hazards sensitive to GHGs. These results h...

Sepsis occurs when the body tries to fight off an infection, and can come on very fast.

npj Vaccines - A rationally designed antigen elicits protective antibodies against multiple nosocomial Gram-positive pathogens