Bacteriophage continue to have so much to teach us. It's in our interest to understand how they work and impact human & environmental health. New joint work led by @mariandm.bsky.social & @rantahan.bsky.social inferring single-cell latent period & burst size heterogeneity from population dynamics.

Inferring single-cell heterogeneity of bacteriophage lysis-associated life-history traits from population-scale dynamics

Theory-guided experiments reveal single-cell heterogeneity of lysis-associated bacteriophage traits from population scale data.

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A ketogenic diet promotes tumour growth in the small intestine in susceptible mice go.nature.com/3TB3Cge

A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet can feed intestinal tumours

A ketogenic diet promotes tumour growth in the small intestine in susceptible mice. In people, diet advice might need to be tailored to individual cancer risks.

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How do you classify a new phage? A new paper in 𝐏𝐋𝐎𝐒 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 shares 10 tips on genome completeness, ANI, marker genes and structure. @colinhillucc.bsky.social @plos.org @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social 📰 buff.ly/XNE0S3X #Microbiome #Phage #Bacteriophage #Virome #Phagesky

Our paper, “Deep learning reveals antimicrobial peptides within prions,” is now published in Nature Microbiology @natureportfolio.nature.com. We used AI to ask an unexpected question: could proteins best known for their role in fatal neurodegenerative diseases encode molecules that fight infection?

El idioma “virus” existe: cómo se comunican entre sí para infectar bacterias theconversation.com/el-idioma-vi...

El idioma “virus” existe: cómo se comunican entre sí para infectar bacterias

A veces, quienes menos esperamos que “hablen” tienen mucho que decir, como es el caso de los virus que se comunican entre sí para decidir si es el momento idóneo de infectar a una bacteria o si convie...

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Mindblowing 🤯

Toni Gabaldón@tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature. Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

New in Science Advances: A bacteriophage stayed genetically stable for months, then evolved rapidly in a new microbial community. www.evolbio.mpg.de/3884217/viru... @jeroenmeijer.bsky.social @paulbrainey.bsky.social @uni-jena.de @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social

La última revolución: investigadores españoles logran cocinar geles de lactato, el maná de los ciclistas para disputar el Tour de Francia. Vía @elpais.com

Out Now! Temperate phages enhance bacterial host fitness via RNA-guided flagellar remodelling #MicroSky

Temperate phages enhance bacterial host fitness via RNA-guided flagellar remodelling

Nature Microbiology, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02355-xThe prophage of a clinical Enterobacter isolate uses an RNA-guided transcription factor to alter flagellar composition, leading to enhanced bacterial motility and improved gut colonization in a mouse model.

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Like a prophage being awakened from its slumber, the phage field has seen a lot of renewed activity during the last decade. Check out our new @natrevmicro.nature.com review on the temperate phage life cycle here to stay up-to-date 🧫🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Revisiting the life cycle of temperate phages - Nature Reviews Microbiology

The life cycle of temperate bacteriophages involves lytic or lysogenic cycles and has historically served as a model for studying genetic regulation. This Review provides an updated overview of these ...

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I had fun writing a short commentary on the importance of integrating prophage biology into microbiome research 🦠 Now out in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social #microbiomesky #phagesky www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Making room for gut prophages in human health

Prophages are pervasive in the human gut yet largely overlooked in microbiome research, despite substantial functional potential. Emerging evidence indicates that prophages regulate bacterial fitness,...

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Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough! 🎉 An inspiration to me & millions of others around the globe & across the generations! We share more than our passion for the natural world but also a deep appreciation for ceramics! His collection is magnificent! 🧪 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

A life in pictures: Celebrating Attenborough at 100

As the British naturalist celebrates a milestone birthday, we take a look at how his work has shaped science.

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Want to find #prophage in your #bacteria genomes? We built PhiSpy a long time ago, and now we've created a new web page for it: linsalrob.github.io/PhiSpyWeb/ Best of all, the data never leaves your computer! #phage #phagesky

ICYMI: New online! Phage host range: determinants, dynamics and applications

Phage host range: determinants, dynamics and applications

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41579-026-01306-xComprehensive assessment of the host range of phages is a prerequisite for their safe and effective use in multiple applications but is rarely undertaken. This Review outlines the molecular and ecological determinants of phage host range and discusses the importance of these determinants for developing phage-based applications.

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Check out our latest preprint!!! We report the LTPlus, a manually curated and aligned database of ~87k best-quality 16S rRNA gene sequences collected from LTP, NCBI, GTDB, and SILVA databases. We also developed the OPUcheck tool to automate the OPU approach. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9...

Bodegas, un tesoro extraterrestre y un castillo medieval convierten a Villena en una alternativa al circuito turístico de Alicante dozz.es/vrikle

Bodegas, un tesoro extraterrestre y un castillo medieval convierten a Villena en una alternativa al circuito turístico de Alicante

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OK this is cool. The first time humans have seen the whole Mare Orientale on the far side of the Moon with their own eyes. See flic.kr/p/2s5HA2X 🧪🔭

This paper started as an idea @albertomarina.bsky.social had many years ago… which of course means he was right all along 😄. Some of us just needed a few years (and a lot of experiments) to catch up. Grateful (and slightly humbled) to be part of this. Thanks Alberto! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Phages communicate across species to shape microbial ecosystems

Gallego-del-Sol et al. show that arbitrium-coding phages can sense non-cognate peptide signals from other phages to regulate lysis-lysogeny decisions. This crosstalk affects lysis-lysogeny outcomes of...

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Gut microbiota within-host evolution enforces colonization resistance against enteric infection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.27.714693v1

KING

VELO@velo-velo-velo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Pogačar Does It! San Remo Challenge Is Finally Conquered Tadej Pogačar shrugs off crash and chase to drop Mathieu Van der Poel and outsprint Tom Pidcock to win Milan-San Remo. bit.ly/47IhFVC

Excited to share this review🔔, we spent sometime thinking about phage–microbiome–immune–oncology axis for phage therapy in cancer! #phage #phagesky Phage therapy in oncology: opportunities for cancer prevention and treatment: Trends in Molecular Medicine www.cell.com/trends/molec...

Phage therapy in oncology: opportunities for cancer prevention and treatment

Bacteriophages (phages) are emerging as programmable biological therapeutics in oncology, extending beyond their traditional antimicrobial applications. This review proposes a phage–microbiome–immune–...

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Final version of our last paper is out! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plasmids promote antimicrobial resistance through insertion sequence-mediated gene inactivation - Nature Microbiology

Inactivation of chromosomal genes through plasmid-encoded IS elements is an extended mechanism of antimicrobial resistance evolution in bacteria.

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Illuminating the newly produced viruses within the virosphere with BONCAT and single virus genomic sequencing technologies academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

Like bacteria, phages use sRNAs to regulate gene expression! Out today in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social, @mvelascogomariz.bsky.social and I highlight a recent RIL-seq study from the @saharmelamed.bsky.social lab that looked into posttranscriptional regulation of lambda! tinyurl.com/lambda-RIL-seq

Unraveling posttranscriptional regulatory networks in phage infection

Phages employ sophisticated transcriptional regulatory networks to optimize replication. Recently, Silverman et al. used RIL-seq (RNA interaction by l…

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Phage–host interactions are a key driver of microbial ecology, but observing them in nature is hard! With metaHi-C, we detect freshwater phage–host pairs and link their infection dynamics to evolution. Together with @nadal-molero.bsky.social & Ana Martin-Cuadrado www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Eco-evolutionary dynamics of active virus-host interactions in a freshwater lake: revealed through metaHi-C https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.18.706586v1

Researchers report creating RNAs that can generate a sort of mirror image of themselves and use that template to generate the original. Learn more: https://scim.ag/46F2BHN

Double Marie Curie win! My lab and life partner, @alopezm.bsky.social, and I have both been awarded MSCA Fellowships with @baerboletta.bsky.social. Exciting times ahead! 🚀

It's increasingly clear that commensal viruses play important roles in human health, but how do you study them? Our review "Tools and approaches to study the human gut virome: from the bench to bioinformatics" is out today in mSystems! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @haleybiont.bsky.social

It's Friday! ...and a new #MVIF program is out! 🤩 Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-46 Highlights: 🇺🇸 Rebecca L. Knoll 🇯🇵 Akito Sakanaka Keynote: 🇺🇸 @simrouxvirus.bsky.social ⭐️ Talks: 🇦🇺 @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @erikbakkeren.bsky.social 🇨🇳 Guanxiang Liang