Today in nature we share our work describing • how to achieve resistance to natural viruses, • a technology that prevents the escape of engineered genetic information, • how viruses overcome genetic-code-based resistance. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Siân Owen Michael Baym Natalia Quinones-Olvera What if, instead of sampling hundreds of phages, we could just make the right ones glow? Enter Phage Discovery by Co-culture (Phage DisCo) which combines two strains: a WT and a modified strain, each fluorescently tagged. Now, fluorescent signal will mark plaques of interest. 3/

I had an amazing time reporting this story, chatting with bright-eyed children about what they saw through their Foldscopes, a low-cost microscope that's changing the study of science at a grassroots level in rural India. Thanks M. Pandiarajan Karthick Balasubramanian npr.org/sections/goats…

Kamala Thiagarajan M. Pandiarajan Karthick Balasubramanian What a wonderful article that shows the joy of discovery students can experience when given the tools of science! Thank you Kamala Thiagarajan for writing about and sharing the incredible work of M. Pandiarajan !

It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! nature.com/articles/s4158…

🫴Bacterial peptidoglycan recycling: Trends in Microbiology: cell.com/trends/microbi…

.Our new article in Chemosphere. This study provides insights into the prevalence of chlorine resistant, pathogenic #bacteria in cooling water systems & highlights the application of #phages to mitigate chlorine resistant bacteria & their #biofilms. Hiren Joshi Phage Directory

Here's the UVC project if you want to follow along. Work in progress so expect code and STL files to change. I'll make a nicer standalone system soon. binomicalabs.notion.site/UVC-Mutagenesi…

New Research: Bacillus coagulans MF-06 alleviates intestinal mucosal barrier from damage in chicks infected with Salmonella pullorum via activating the Wnt/β-catenin pathway frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #FrontiersIn #Microbiology

Gram stain showing gram-positive rods arranged in long chains, characteristic of Bacillus species. These rods are large, uniform in size, and may exhibit a bamboo-stick or boxcar-like appearance.

Do you need an intro to analyzing (prote)omics data? This series of lectures may be helpful. We aimed to make them short & accessible. Enjoy watching & learning! youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Bacterial peptidoglycan recycling Review by Michael C. Gilmore (@GilmoreMichaelC) & Felipe Cava (CavaLab) dlvr.it/TGVPnc

1) sustainable funding of pathogen WGS surveillance 2) proving that "sequencing (surveillance of) X number of genomes can prevent Y number of deaths/HAIs"

If the structural similarity between hemoglobin and chlorophyll doesn't fascinate you, then I'm not sure we can be friends.

WCK 5222: telegraphindia.com/india/indias-s…

Harnessing microbial heterogeneity for improved biosynthesis fueled by synthetic biology "the origins of microbial heterogeneity and tools to increase/decrease heterogeneity" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨New paper alert🚨 So happy to finally share this! now out Cell Reports ✨ We explored the hierarchical structure that controls virulence in Pseudomonas🦠, finding a mutational hotspot that acts as a genetic switch for hypervirulence💀 and AMR💊 cell.com/cell-reports/f…

MY YEAR IN REVIEW: Hi, if you've been following my work, a heartfelt thank you for reading. 2024 has been a very fulfilling year and one of my busiest. I'm a science journalist based in Madurai, India and writing for the international press for the last 20 years. My work 👇

Published just in time for the holidays! I learned so much while writing about the past, present, and future of E. faecalis research with Gary. Check it out! 🦠🧫🧪🔬 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mm…

Smart microbes are rapidly emerging as potential therapeutic interventions. Srivastava and Lesser in MBT discuss the potential of engineered bacteria for ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all ages, aligning with UN SDG 3. Read: doi.org/10.1111/1751-7…