From coral reefs to human guts: stress is stress

Reefs and colons share no taxa, no host, no timescale, but they report stress the same way, which tells us where NOT to look for solutions.

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Bacteria organise themselves to hitchhike across large distances

Microbes rarely travel alone. In any given environment, millions of microbial species compete with each other for resources while locked in an endless state of warfare […]

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Intergenerational mobility fosters innovation in Europe - Nature

The EUROPE-IGM-ATLAS reveals spatiotemporal trends that characterize the changing geography of opportunity in Europe and its relationship with regional innovation.

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Scientists should recognize their own political biases to build public trust

Public trust in science can’t be sustained by the support of narrow constituencies at one end of an ideological spectrum.

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Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis - Nature

Phylogenomic reconstruction of the proteome of the last eukaryotic common ancestor sheds light on the origin of eukaryotes, indicating an important role of horizontal transfer of genes from diverse bacterial and viral donors.

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Brushing your teeth in hospital could reduce the chance of catching pneumonia

A toothbrush, some toothpaste and a few minutes of care can prevent a life‑threatening infection. That’s rare in modern medicine.

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AI is taking on antibiotic resistance — here’s how

A suite of artificial-intelligence tools is helping to speed up the process of discovering new antibiotics.

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Antibiotic resistance turns up in Australian horses, raising new concerns about animal and human infections

Research into a common environmental germ that can cause severe infections in people and animals has raised concern that horses are starting to develop antibiotic resistance towards it. The…

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Effects of a probiotic fermented dairy product on hippocampal metabolites, structure and function: an 8-week randomised, placebo-controlled trial in healthy women

Background Fermented foods are a promising yet underexplored intervention for influencing brain function and mental health through the gut–brain axis. Objective The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of a dairy product fermented with probiotic bacteria on aspects of brain structure...

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Symbiotic bacteria may support calcium carbonate precipitation in the Gulf toadfish

Marine fish play a significant yet understudied role in the oceanic carbon cycle through the production of calcium carbonate precipitates. This study of the gulf toadfish gut reveals a high abundance ...

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Climate crisis is accelerating antibiotic resistance across world, study says

Experts say climate change linked to 10% rise in salmonella antibiotic resistance genes between 1940 and 2023

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PostDoc of Metabolic Research Group

Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis (LIOS) - the leading drug discovery centre in the Baltic countries is offering One permanent position of PostDoc of Metabolic Research Group.

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Agricultural intensification, microbial homogenization and loss of rare microbiota

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 26 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41579-026-01315-wIn this Perspective, Banerjee, Dasgupta and van der Heijden discuss how intensive agricultural practices can lead to the taxonomic, physiological, genetic and functional homogenization of microbial communities and disproportionately affect rare microbiota.

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Streptomyces deploys an ancient toxin to feast on insects

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41579-026-01320-zThis study identified an exotoxin that is produced by Streptomyces that specifically kills insects.

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Matters Microbial #130: The Holobiont — Animals, Microbes, and Ecology

YouTube video by MicrobeTV

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Audio long read: The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for

Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature Feature.

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Open position: PhD scholarship in microbial ecology of coralline algae - Marine Symbiomes Research Group

We invite applications for a PhD student to work on the microbiomes of crustose coralline algae (CCA) across tropical mangrove–seagrass–reef corridors.

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Next-generation probiotics: an outlook into current applications and future developments

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 08 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41579-026-01311-0In this Review, Kern, Tofield, Frame and Elinav discuss recent advances in the design of next-generation probiotics, from identification of candidates to therapeutic applications across diverse disease contexts, and highlight major challenges and the potential of artificial intelligence to develop effective, personalized probiotics with therapeutic functions.

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Shared signals shape phages’ lifestyles

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 27 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41579-026-01310-1Two back-to-back studies by Gallego-del-Sol et al. and Manley et al. demonstrate that arbitrium systems present in bacteriophages engage in cross-communication and modulate lysis–lysogeny decisions, with ecological implications.

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