Drug development requires evidence integration across biological scales and modalities, but relevant tools are fragmented. We introduce the Virtual Biotech, an organization of artificial intelligence ...

Nature Microbiology, Published online: 06 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02364-wThe birth and evolution of microbiology have been driven by technology, but human ingenuity is key to ensuring scientifically meaningful discovery.

Spatially regulated membrane constriction is an important milestone in reconstituting minimal cell division. Here the authors engineer a truncated system where the cytosolic domain of FtsN forms large...

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Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 10 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01254-yMicrobial whole-genome sequencing is an important element of health-care-associated infection (HAI) prevention strategies. Focusing on specific high-priority antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens, this Review outlines the epidemiology and microbiology of HAIs and discusses the role of whole-genome sequencing in HAI prevention and surveillance.

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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...

Naydenova, Boyle and Pathe et al. report that Shigella uses the ubiquitin E3 ligase IpaH1.4 to evade lipopolysaccharide ubiquitylation in infected cells by degrading the host E3 ligase RNF213. Using c...

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01155-0In this Review, Ahmad et al. examine how antibiotics influence bacterial metabolism and how metabolism, in turn, affects drug efficacy and the emergence and…