Microbiology & Virology

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (175+ words) The atmosphere represents one of Earth’s largest and least characterized microbial ecosystems. Every day, humans inhale thousands of liters of air containing bacteria, fungi, viruses, allergens, and... Keynote Presentation: Atmospheric Metagenomics: Charting the Air Microbiome and its Impact on Planetary…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (70+ words) Among the bacteria groups, most of them are known to be beneficial to human being whereas only a minority is being recognized as harmful. The pathogenicity of bacteria is due, in part, to their rapid adaptation in the presence of…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (502+ words) ▲ Schematic illustration showing the PilQ secretin outer-membrane channel during type IV pilus assembly being blocked by SlkA or SlkB protein plugs. SlkA/B occupy the PilQ lumen before docking of the... SKKU Identifies New Antibiotic Resistance Mechanism in Superbug Pseudomonas…...

2+ hour, 50+ min ago   (243+ words) Nillumbik Shire Council has suspended all rabbit management programs while the Victorian Department of Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) independently assesses information provided by Council and contractors in relation to rabbit control works carried out at Fergusons…...

2+ hour, 51+ min ago   (472+ words) Are you sure you want to import this news into? Remains of cyanobacteria biofilms (stromatolites) in Australia’s Shark Bay World Heritage Area. © Philippe Barraud EPFL biophysicists have taken a systematic look into how bacterial biofilms are affected by fluid flow....

3+ hour, 44+ min ago   (102+ words) The order extends complete Vector Smart laboratory installations to a Native American tribe for the first time. Co-Diagnostics (CODX) received an order from the Ute Indian Tribe Mosquito Abatement Department for a complete Vector Smart laboratory installation. Reported 40 customers across…...

13+ min ago   (671+ words) A new single-cell atlas of more than 500,000 cells shows that viral, bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections each leave distinct transcriptional fingerprints on the intestinal epithelium, including a STAT3-driven enterocyte state spatially linked to Yersinia-induced inflammatory lesions....

41+ min ago   (66+ words) A new joint mixture Tobit statistical model distinguishes true microbial absence from undetected low abundance, improving the detection of microbiome-disease links in zero-inflated sequencing data. Article Title: A joint mixture Tobit method with latent microbial abundance improves detection of microbiome…...

36+ min ago   (619+ words) A bifunctional enzyme in the rice blight pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae doubles as a quorum-sensing signal synthase and an essential regulator of fatty acid synthesis and membrane integrity....

1+ day, 1+ min ago   (243+ words) MUSCAT: Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) will host the 4th International Conference on Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology Applications, which... MUSCAT: Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) will host the 4th International Conference on Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology Applications, which will kick off on October 12 The…...