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🎉🦠 Microbites is 5! 🧬✨

Five years of breaking down microbiology, amplifying science communication, and sharing the tiny stories that shape our world.

Thank you to our writers, readers, and fellow microbe enthusiasts for growing with us. Here’s to many more bites of science! 🥳🔬
MicroBites is 5!
MicroBites 4 year anniversary! Let’s have a look at the past four years in numbers.
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February 2, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Wetlands aren’t wastelandsthey’re living archives. 🌿

Beneath wet soils, microbes quietly lock away carbon, recycle nutrients, and sustain livelihoods communities have depended on for generations.

#Westlands2026
A low carb diet- resilience of the soil microbiome.
Though the soil microbiome manages to thrive through the harshest ecosystems, scientists thought them limited by their access to organic carbon sources… until now.
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February 1, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Tiny Wires, Big Power

Did you know some bacteria can make electricity? ⚡

Geobacter microbes form protein “nanowires” to move electrons outside their cells, turning methane into power. Clean energy might just be microscopic!

#CleanEnergyDay
Wired for Clean Energy: How unique bacteria make electricity-conducting wires
Meet the methane-munching bacteria that make their own molecular wires, paving the way for a sustainable future!
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January 26, 2026 at 11:01 AM
📣 New MicroBites!

Novel Antibiotics and Where to Find Them 💊

Preventing our past from becoming our future might require an understudied domain of life – and a computer! 💻 🦠
Novel Antibiotics and Where to Find Them
Preventing our past from becoming our future might require an understudied domain of life – and a computer!
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January 22, 2026 at 11:01 AM
📣 New MicroBites!

Can Leishmania Stand the Heat? 🥵

How a heat-based therapeutic can be an alternative in the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis. 🦠
Can Leishmania Stand the Heat?
How a heat-based therapeutic can be an alternative in the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis.
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January 19, 2026 at 11:02 AM
📣 New MicroBites!

How Bile Acids Neutralize a Deadly Gut Toxin ⚔️

Synthetic bile acids lock the lethal toxin produced by C. difficile into a harmless state, protecting the gut from damage. 🦠
How Bile Acids Neutralize a Deadly Gut Toxin
Synthetic bile acids lock the lethal toxin produced by C. difficile into a harmless state, protecting the gut from damage.
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January 12, 2026 at 11:01 AM
📣 New MicroBites!

Fungi in Space 🍄 🌌

How microgravity can help fungi’s pathogenicity ✨
Fungi in Space
How microgravity can help fungi’s pathogenicity
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January 7, 2026 at 11:01 AM
📣 New MicroBites!

Security hacked: How phages slip past bacterial defenses 🦠

Phages rely on diverse anti-defense proteins to neutralize bacterial defense systems and successfully infect their host. 👇
Security hacked: How phages slip past bacterial defenses
Phages rely on diverse anti-defense proteins to neutralize bacterial defense systems and successfully infect their host.
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January 2, 2026 at 11:01 AM
🔬✨ Happy New Year from MicroBites!

Here’s to a 2026 full of curiosity, discoveries, and tiny microbes making a big impact.

Let’s keep exploring the microscopic world; one bite at a time! 🦠🎉
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January 1, 2026 at 11:01 AM
📣 New MicroBites!

Global warming is a summer vacation for the dengue virus ☀️

The dengue virus enjoys warm weather 🦠
Global warming is a summer vacation for the dengue virus
The dengue virus enjoys warm weather
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December 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
📣 New MicroBites!

Antibiotic Resistance Potential of ESKAPE Pathogens 💊

Multidrug-resistant infections are a growing global threat, driven by diverse bacterial resistance mechanisms, complicating efforts to develop effective, long-lasting antibiotics. 🦠
Antibiotic Resistance Potential of ESKAPE Pathogens
Multidrug-resistant infections are a growing global threat, driven by diverse bacterial resistance mechanisms, complicating efforts to develop effective, long-lasting antibiotics.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Is the Microbiome Overrated? 🦠

A medical humanities perspective on the way researchers talk about the microbiome. 👇
Is the Microbiome Overrated?
A medical humanities perspective on the way researchers talk about the microbiome.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
From Therapy to Threat: Antibiotics and the Resistome

Antibiotics revolutionized medicine — but overuse turned them into a global threat. 🌍💊 Discover how resistance genes evolve and spread across ecosystems in our latest piece.

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#WAAW2025 #AMR #OneHealth
From Therapy to Threat: Antibiotics and the Resistome
Antibiotic-induced dysbiosis disrupts gut microbial harmony, fuel resistance gene spread, and triggers inflammation—reshaping immunity, brain health, and future disease risks.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Phage Disco: The Comeback of Phage Discovery

When antibiotics fail, bacteriophages step back into the spotlight! 🎶🔬 Dive into the “phage disco” — where viruses that kill bacteria might help us fight AMR.

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#WAAW2025 #PhageTherapy #AMR
Phage discovery gets its groove back with Phage DisCo
Phage discovery can be long and drawn out, but scientists are ready to get down with this groovy new method that skips the hassle.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Exploiting Fitness Costs to Reimagine the AMR Fight

Can evolution help us outsmart resistance? 🧠💥 Learn how researchers turn bacteria’s own fitness trade-offs into an advantage in the battle against AMR.

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#WAAW2025 #Microbiology #AMRResearch
Reimagining the AMR fight: Exploiting Fitness Costs
How exploiting bacterial fitness costs can help us find a way to tackle resistance in bacteria and help us use the existing drugs more effectively.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Teamwork in Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance

No one beats AMR alone. Collaboration between clinicians, farmers, policymakers & scientists is key to protect our present and secure our future. 🌍💪

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#WAAW2025 #OneHealth #ActNow
Teamwork: Fighting antimicrobial resistance
Essential oils and tetracycline make for an antibacterial double act
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November 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A New Fungal Fighter

A novel antifungal discovery could tip the scales in our fight against drug resistance! 🧫⚔️ Meet the next-generation compounds targeting tough fungal infections.

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#WAAW2025 #Antifungal #AMR
A New Fungal Fighter
A modified macrolide called mandimycin, uniquely targets fungal cell membranes, offering potent activity against multidrug-resistant fungal pathogens.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Bacteria’s First Response: Epigenetics & Resistance

Resistance isn’t always genetic — sometimes it’s epigenetic! 🧬 Discover how bacteria “remember” antibiotic exposure and adapt faster than we think.

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#WAAW2025 #Epigenetics #AMR
Bacteria’s first response against antibiotics? Epigenetics
Bacteria modify RNA molecules to become more resistant to the effect of antibiotics. Researchers analyze and characterize these modifications.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today starts AMR awareness week! 💊

That’s Metal! Tackling AMR with Bismuth

Could metals help fight superbugs? ⚡️🧫 Learn how bismuth-based compounds disrupt bacterial defenses — an old element with new promise!

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#WAAW2025 #Innovation #AMR
That’s Metal! Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance with Bismuth
Co-administration of bismuth-containing compounds and antibiotics increases their antimicrobial activity, including against resistant bacterial pathogens, through disruption of iron uptake.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Have We Always Been Alone? 🦠

More specific searches for signs of extraterrestrial life might provide the answers we seek on the Red Planet. 👽
Have We Always Been Alone?
More specific searches for signs of extraterrestrial life might provide the answers we seek on the Red Planet.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
📣 New MicroBites!

How do plants perceive their microbiome? 🌱

In this interview, researcher Andreas Keppler explains how plants determine whether to fight or welcome the microbes that colonize them.… 🦠 👇
How do plants perceive their microbiome?
In this interview, researcher Andreas Keppler explains how plants determine whether to fight or welcome the microbes that colonize them.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
📣 New MicroBites!

When Microbes Become Master Chocolatiers 🍫

Fine chocolate owes its depth to microbes, tiny chocolatiers fermenting cocoa bean pulp into the complex flavors we crave. 🦠
When Microbes Become Master Chocolatiers
Fine chocolate owes its depth to microbes, tiny chocolatiers fermenting cocoa bean pulp into the complex flavors we crave.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
📣 New MicroBites!

Engineered Parasites as Potential Treatments for Neurological Disorders 🦠

Engineered parasites like Toxoplasma gondii offer novel, targeted therapies for brain disorders by delivering treatments directly into neurons. 🧠
Engineered Parasites as Potential Treatments for Neurological Disorders
Engineered parasites like Toxoplasma gondii offer novel, targeted therapies for brain disorders by delivering treatments directly into neurons.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
How can cities grow without harming the planet? 💚

Scientists are turning to an unexpected ally — algae. These tiny organisms can power buildings, clean wastewater, and even fuel cars. Smart cities start at the microscopic level. 🌿🏙️ #WorldCitiesDay
The future is green
World, where all processes are carbon-neutral, is closer than you think! Learn how and why algae are important for this transition.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Unexpected baby-guardians 👶

On Mum’s gut bacteria and how they could boost her baby’s healthy development and avoid preeclampsia 🦠
Unexpected baby-guardians
On Mum’s gut bacteria and how they could boost her baby’s healthy development and avoid preeclampsia
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October 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM