What if there was an antibiotic that doesn't disrupt the gut microbiome? There is now. A discovery published nature today nature.com/articles/s4158… Paul Hergenrother and colleagues University of Illinois justsaysinmice

📚 ¿𝐓𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚 𝐥𝐚 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢́𝐚? ¡𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐚 𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐮 𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐝𝐚! 📍 Universidad San Francisco de Quito 📅 Fecha límite de postulación: 12 de mayo de 2025 La Universidad San Francisco de Quito anuncia la apertura

🧬 ¡𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐩𝐨 𝐞𝐧 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐚́𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐬! La Universidad San Francisco de Quito busca un/a Coordinador/a de Laboratorio de Genómica para trabajar en el Galápagos Science Center en San Cristóbal - Galápagos. 🌎

Nuevo Doctarado en la USFQ 🇪🇨! Ecología y Soluciones Globales Abre en agosto 2025 usfq.edu.ec/es/posgrados/d…

🔬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨 𝐂𝐎𝐂𝐈𝐁𝐀 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 El 25 de abril, Ana Sofía Sosa presentó su trabajo de titulación en el Congreso COCIBA: "Presencia de Staphylococcus enterotoxigénico y detección de enterotoxinas clásicas en queso manaba en el Distrito Metropolitano de Quito"

🚨 ¡Doctorado con beca en la USFQ! 🚨 💧 Agua, comunidades y salud ambiental 🔬 Proyecto en el Chocó Andino ✅ Gestión del agua ✅ Investigación ✅ Inglés y español 🎓 Beca + estipendio mensual 📲 Info: dropbox.com/scl/fi/owykylg…

From: Yellow Jack’s Potential Return to the American South Authors: Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., & Angelle Desiree LaBeaud, M.D. N Engl J Med 2023;389:1445-1447 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2308420

You may ask: “why study ancient enzymes? Who cares what life looked like 3 billion years ago?” Because evolution may hold answers to problems we still struggle with, and it can guide our efforts. New paper from our lab! 🧵

Microbe with bizarrely tiny genome may be evolving into a virus | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Key numbers in cell biology Having a sense of scale helps to think more rigorously and realistically about biological systems.

Last month I explained why aluminum adjuvants are safe: tiny doses, nearly a century of use, cleared by the kidneys like dietary aluminum. Now we have a landmark study of 1.22 million Danish children (births 1997-2018) followed to age 5, with a check to age 8. Result: no

¿Cómo es posible esto? Les pregunté si tengo que bajarme a la calle con el coche para poder caminar y su respuesta fue: 🤷🏻‍♂️ AMTQuito Claro Ecuador Agencia Metropolitana de Control En la agencia Claro de la Amazonas y Río Coca

Archaea, microbes that make up the least known branch on the tree of life, are home to a trove of leads for new antibiotics, according to a pair of new reports. scim.ag/4lwtSAT

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Introducing Salmonella Serovar Wiki! A web portal for academia, industry and public health providing comprehensive, serovar-specific information on over 100 Salmonella serovars, including their genomic characteristics and outbreak history. #mSphere: asm.social/2Fn

Early Microbial Evolution asm.org/articles/2025/… “our understanding of the beginning of life will remain incomplete without bringing in insights of microbial evolution.”

Microbes can store “memories” by collectively altering their environment. These externalized “memories” impact how microbial communities assemble. 🔗 isme-microbes.org/bacterial-memo… #MicrobeMemory #MicrobialEcology

“There were some cells in there that were very messed up” In a technological tour-de-force, researchers have sequenced the whole genomes of more than 100 individual cells from one 74-year-old man go.nature.com/3M3m4KQ

‘Universal vaccine’ protects mice against multiple pathogens nature.com/articles/d4158…