Nature Microbiology
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Nature Microbiology publishes the latest research and commentary in all areas of microbiology.
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Nature Microbiology turns 10! 🎂
As a special treat, we take you back to the editorial team that started it all and then fast forward to take a peek into the future of microbiology through some brilliant microbiologists.
#MicroSky 🦠
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As a special treat, we take you back to the editorial team that started it all and then fast forward to take a peek into the future of microbiology through some brilliant microbiologists.
#MicroSky 🦠
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
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Nature Sensors has officially launched today!
The first issue is now out: www.nature.com/natsensors/v...
Nature Sensors will champion interdisciplinary, application-driven innovation across life sciences, AI, robotics, electronics, sustainability, and beyond.
#NatureSensors #NaturePortfolio
The first issue is now out: www.nature.com/natsensors/v...
Nature Sensors will champion interdisciplinary, application-driven innovation across life sciences, AI, robotics, electronics, sustainability, and beyond.
#NatureSensors #NaturePortfolio
January 16, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Nature Sensors has officially launched today!
The first issue is now out: www.nature.com/natsensors/v...
Nature Sensors will champion interdisciplinary, application-driven innovation across life sciences, AI, robotics, electronics, sustainability, and beyond.
#NatureSensors #NaturePortfolio
The first issue is now out: www.nature.com/natsensors/v...
Nature Sensors will champion interdisciplinary, application-driven innovation across life sciences, AI, robotics, electronics, sustainability, and beyond.
#NatureSensors #NaturePortfolio
Out Now! A phage protein screen identifies triggers of the bacterial innate immune system #MicroSky
A phage protein screen identifies triggers of the bacterial innate immune system
Nature Microbiology, Published online: 16 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-025-02239-6A library of 400 phage protein-coding genes is used to find a trove of antiphage systems, revealing systems that target tail fibre and major capsid proteins.
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January 16, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Out Now! A phage protein screen identifies triggers of the bacterial innate immune system #MicroSky
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Next week, I will be at the microbiome Keystone Symposia at Banff, Canada. Looking forward to socialising with brilliant scientists and learning about their interesting research.
If you're also there, catch me for a quick chat!
#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky
If you're also there, catch me for a quick chat!
#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky
January 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Next week, I will be at the microbiome Keystone Symposia at Banff, Canada. Looking forward to socialising with brilliant scientists and learning about their interesting research.
If you're also there, catch me for a quick chat!
#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky
If you're also there, catch me for a quick chat!
#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky
Nature Health launches today! In our inaugural editorial, we outline our vision of 'health beyond medicine' and aim to publish research, reviews and opinion that bridges the 'implementation gap' between health research with policy and practice.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
January 16, 2026 at 3:46 PM
#NatMicroPicks
Asgard archaea and the origin of eukaryotes! 🦠
Eukaryotic cellular complexity evolved largely within the Asgard lineage before mitochondrial endosymbiosis and later bacterial gene acquisitions
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Asgard archaea and the origin of eukaryotes! 🦠
Eukaryotic cellular complexity evolved largely within the Asgard lineage before mitochondrial endosymbiosis and later bacterial gene acquisitions
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis - Nature
A survey of the reconstructed gene set of the last eukaryotic common ancestor shows a consistent link between Asgard archaea and the origin of numerous, functionally diverse eukaryotic genes, dem...
www.nature.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:56 PM
#NatMicroPicks
Asgard archaea and the origin of eukaryotes! 🦠
Eukaryotic cellular complexity evolved largely within the Asgard lineage before mitochondrial endosymbiosis and later bacterial gene acquisitions
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Asgard archaea and the origin of eukaryotes! 🦠
Eukaryotic cellular complexity evolved largely within the Asgard lineage before mitochondrial endosymbiosis and later bacterial gene acquisitions
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#NatMicroPicks
Rejuvenating antifungal activity! 🍄💊
Butyrolactol A inhibits a fungal lipid flippase to restore the activity of echinocandin against intrinsically resistant pathogens, highlighting lipid flippases as promising antifungal targets
#MicroSky
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Rejuvenating antifungal activity! 🍄💊
Butyrolactol A inhibits a fungal lipid flippase to restore the activity of echinocandin against intrinsically resistant pathogens, highlighting lipid flippases as promising antifungal targets
#MicroSky
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Butyrolactol A enhances caspofungin efficacy via flippase inhibition in drug-resistant fungi
Chen et al. identify the natural product butyrolactol A as an inhibitor of the phospholipid
flippase Apt1-Cdc50, which it locks in a nonfunctional state. By disrupting membrane
homeostasis and enhanci...
www.cell.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:52 PM
#NatMicroPicks
Rejuvenating antifungal activity! 🍄💊
Butyrolactol A inhibits a fungal lipid flippase to restore the activity of echinocandin against intrinsically resistant pathogens, highlighting lipid flippases as promising antifungal targets
#MicroSky
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Rejuvenating antifungal activity! 🍄💊
Butyrolactol A inhibits a fungal lipid flippase to restore the activity of echinocandin against intrinsically resistant pathogens, highlighting lipid flippases as promising antifungal targets
#MicroSky
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
#NatMicroPicks
gut microbes protect from pneumonia! 🦠🫁
SFB colonization reprograms alveolar macrophages to resist influenza‑induced depletion and enhances their antibacterial function protecting mice from secondary bacterial pneumonia
#MicroSky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
gut microbes protect from pneumonia! 🦠🫁
SFB colonization reprograms alveolar macrophages to resist influenza‑induced depletion and enhances their antibacterial function protecting mice from secondary bacterial pneumonia
#MicroSky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Segmented filamentous bacteria reprogramming of alveolar macrophages limits postinfluenza bacterial pneumonia
SFB colonization phenotypically alters alveolar macrophages, maintaining their antibacterial functions in inflamed interferon-rich lungs.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:50 PM
#NatMicroPicks
gut microbes protect from pneumonia! 🦠🫁
SFB colonization reprograms alveolar macrophages to resist influenza‑induced depletion and enhances their antibacterial function protecting mice from secondary bacterial pneumonia
#MicroSky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
gut microbes protect from pneumonia! 🦠🫁
SFB colonization reprograms alveolar macrophages to resist influenza‑induced depletion and enhances their antibacterial function protecting mice from secondary bacterial pneumonia
#MicroSky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#NatMicroPicks
bacterial amino acid metabolism affects cancer progression 🦠🦀🐁
Bacteroides asparaginase lowers intestinal asparagine levels and drives colorectal tumor progression
#MicroSky
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bacterial amino acid metabolism affects cancer progression 🦠🦀🐁
Bacteroides asparaginase lowers intestinal asparagine levels and drives colorectal tumor progression
#MicroSky
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Microbiota utilization of intestinal amino acids modulates cancer progression and anticancer immunity
Qiao et al. identify gut microbes and amino acid-metabolizing genes that influence
tumor burden. A Bacteroides asparaginase, bo-ansB, modulates host tumor responses
to dietary asparagine (Asn) by depl...
www.cell.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:47 PM
#NatMicroPicks
bacterial amino acid metabolism affects cancer progression 🦠🦀🐁
Bacteroides asparaginase lowers intestinal asparagine levels and drives colorectal tumor progression
#MicroSky
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
bacterial amino acid metabolism affects cancer progression 🦠🦀🐁
Bacteroides asparaginase lowers intestinal asparagine levels and drives colorectal tumor progression
#MicroSky
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
#NatMicroPicks
Marmosets as TB model! 🐭🦠
Multivariate profiles of lung lesions in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infected marmosets and then align these profiles with clinical outcomes in patients with TB
#MicroSky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Marmosets as TB model! 🐭🦠
Multivariate profiles of lung lesions in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infected marmosets and then align these profiles with clinical outcomes in patients with TB
#MicroSky
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PET/CT imaging of tuberculosis lung lesions in marmosets treated with different drug regimens aligns with human clinical outcomes
Longitudinal PET/CT imaging data from the lungs of infected marmosets align with clinical treatment outcomes in patients with TB.
www.science.org
January 16, 2026 at 2:43 PM
#NatMicroPicks
Marmosets as TB model! 🐭🦠
Multivariate profiles of lung lesions in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infected marmosets and then align these profiles with clinical outcomes in patients with TB
#MicroSky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Marmosets as TB model! 🐭🦠
Multivariate profiles of lung lesions in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infected marmosets and then align these profiles with clinical outcomes in patients with TB
#MicroSky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#NatMicroPicks
Countering black fungus 💉🍄
Albumin protects against mucormycosis by releasing antifungal fatty acids that suppress Mucorales virulence, and hypoalbuminaemia emerges as a key metabolic risk factor driving susceptibility to this infection.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Countering black fungus 💉🍄
Albumin protects against mucormycosis by releasing antifungal fatty acids that suppress Mucorales virulence, and hypoalbuminaemia emerges as a key metabolic risk factor driving susceptibility to this infection.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Albumin orchestrates a natural host defence mechanism against mucormycosis - Nature
Albumin selectively inhibits Mucorales growth through the release of bound free fatty acids.
www.nature.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:42 PM
#NatMicroPicks
Countering black fungus 💉🍄
Albumin protects against mucormycosis by releasing antifungal fatty acids that suppress Mucorales virulence, and hypoalbuminaemia emerges as a key metabolic risk factor driving susceptibility to this infection.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Countering black fungus 💉🍄
Albumin protects against mucormycosis by releasing antifungal fatty acids that suppress Mucorales virulence, and hypoalbuminaemia emerges as a key metabolic risk factor driving susceptibility to this infection.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#NatMicroPicks
Microbiota at tumour control 🦠🦀🐭
A single gut microbe reprograms intestinal TH17 cells into tumour‑fighting TH1‑like cells that enable effective anti‑PD‑1 immunotherapy
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Microbiota at tumour control 🦠🦀🐭
A single gut microbe reprograms intestinal TH17 cells into tumour‑fighting TH1‑like cells that enable effective anti‑PD‑1 immunotherapy
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Microbiota-induced T cell plasticity enables immune-mediated tumour control - Nature
Molecular mimicry between a gut commensal and a tumour antigen forms part of an important mechanistic framework that can boost the efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade therapy and restrain tumour gr...
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January 16, 2026 at 2:40 PM
#NatMicroPicks
Microbiota at tumour control 🦠🦀🐭
A single gut microbe reprograms intestinal TH17 cells into tumour‑fighting TH1‑like cells that enable effective anti‑PD‑1 immunotherapy
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Microbiota at tumour control 🦠🦀🐭
A single gut microbe reprograms intestinal TH17 cells into tumour‑fighting TH1‑like cells that enable effective anti‑PD‑1 immunotherapy
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The first issue of Nature Health is live! www.nature.com/naturehealth/
Congratulations to the authors and editors who have contributed to this issue, covering an impressive range of topics in global, digital, environmental and public health.
Launch editorial: rdcu.be/eZmz5
@nathealth.nature.com
Congratulations to the authors and editors who have contributed to this issue, covering an impressive range of topics in global, digital, environmental and public health.
Launch editorial: rdcu.be/eZmz5
@nathealth.nature.com
Nature Health
Nature Health is an interdisciplinary journal championing health and wellbeing research at a population level, focused on protection and promotion of health, ...
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January 16, 2026 at 1:07 PM
The first issue of Nature Health is live! www.nature.com/naturehealth/
Congratulations to the authors and editors who have contributed to this issue, covering an impressive range of topics in global, digital, environmental and public health.
Launch editorial: rdcu.be/eZmz5
@nathealth.nature.com
Congratulations to the authors and editors who have contributed to this issue, covering an impressive range of topics in global, digital, environmental and public health.
Launch editorial: rdcu.be/eZmz5
@nathealth.nature.com
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Check out the latest paper by @carmen-aguilar.bsky.social, which also involved our #HIRI group leader @emmanuel-saliba.bsky.social and his lab. It was recently published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Congratulations to all authors! 👏🎉
Congratulations to all authors! 👏🎉
January 15, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Check out the latest paper by @carmen-aguilar.bsky.social, which also involved our #HIRI group leader @emmanuel-saliba.bsky.social and his lab. It was recently published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Congratulations to all authors! 👏🎉
Congratulations to all authors! 👏🎉
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Hot off the press and very interesting: Hsu, Schnabl et al. reveal how gut bacteria contribute to (not kidding) auto-brewery syndrome (ABS). Patients become intoxicated without drinking alcohol. Their gut microbiota ferments carbohydrates into ethanol. Which microbes are responsible? ⬇️
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January 12, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Hot off the press and very interesting: Hsu, Schnabl et al. reveal how gut bacteria contribute to (not kidding) auto-brewery syndrome (ABS). Patients become intoxicated without drinking alcohol. Their gut microbiota ferments carbohydrates into ethanol. Which microbes are responsible? ⬇️
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I've written a highlight article for @natmicrobiol.nature.com on their new publication from the Ding lab that showed the healing potential of commensal #fungi. Important work started in mice with possible health benefits for humans. Read more here:
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#immunosky #microsky 🧪🍄
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#immunosky #microsky 🧪🍄
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January 12, 2026 at 12:26 PM
I've written a highlight article for @natmicrobiol.nature.com on their new publication from the Ding lab that showed the healing potential of commensal #fungi. Important work started in mice with possible health benefits for humans. Read more here:
rdcu.be/eYFyy
#immunosky #microsky 🧪🍄
rdcu.be/eYFyy
#immunosky #microsky 🧪🍄
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@carmen-aguilar.bsky.social and her team have, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate. New paper out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
The secret route of prostate infections
A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate. The discovery opens the door to potential new treatments for bacterial pr...
www.uni-wuerzburg.de
January 12, 2026 at 10:29 AM
@carmen-aguilar.bsky.social and her team have, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate. New paper out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
Reposted by Nature Microbiology
#NewResearch
Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) can cause bacterial prostatitis, a prevalent and recurrent infection with high morbidity in men. Here they show that UPEC invades luminal prostate cells via a bacterial FimH and host PPAP receptor interaction
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) can cause bacterial prostatitis, a prevalent and recurrent infection with high morbidity in men. Here they show that UPEC invades luminal prostate cells via a bacterial FimH and host PPAP receptor interaction
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 9, 2026 at 11:29 AM
#NewResearch
Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) can cause bacterial prostatitis, a prevalent and recurrent infection with high morbidity in men. Here they show that UPEC invades luminal prostate cells via a bacterial FimH and host PPAP receptor interaction
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) can cause bacterial prostatitis, a prevalent and recurrent infection with high morbidity in men. Here they show that UPEC invades luminal prostate cells via a bacterial FimH and host PPAP receptor interaction
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#NewResearch
Gut microbes can produce ethanol and contribute to auto-brewery syndrome. FMT can potentially treat individuals with this syndrome and improve symptoms.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gut microbes can produce ethanol and contribute to auto-brewery syndrome. FMT can potentially treat individuals with this syndrome and improve symptoms.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 9, 2026 at 11:23 AM
#NewResearch
Gut microbes can produce ethanol and contribute to auto-brewery syndrome. FMT can potentially treat individuals with this syndrome and improve symptoms.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gut microbes can produce ethanol and contribute to auto-brewery syndrome. FMT can potentially treat individuals with this syndrome and improve symptoms.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#NewResearch
Infecting phages co-opt a bacterial protein to potentially faciliate genome degradation of competing phages
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Infecting phages co-opt a bacterial protein to potentially faciliate genome degradation of competing phages
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 9, 2026 at 11:18 AM
#NewResearch
Infecting phages co-opt a bacterial protein to potentially faciliate genome degradation of competing phages
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Infecting phages co-opt a bacterial protein to potentially faciliate genome degradation of competing phages
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New Review!
Sang Yup Lee, Bernhard Palsson & Gi Bae Kim discuss how #AI can aid microbial gene function discovery
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microsky
Sang Yup Lee, Bernhard Palsson & Gi Bae Kim discuss how #AI can aid microbial gene function discovery
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microsky
January 9, 2026 at 11:13 AM
New Review!
Sang Yup Lee, Bernhard Palsson & Gi Bae Kim discuss how #AI can aid microbial gene function discovery
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microsky
Sang Yup Lee, Bernhard Palsson & Gi Bae Kim discuss how #AI can aid microbial gene function discovery
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microsky
New Microbe Matters!
@relenski.bsky.social traces the legacy of Escherichia coli and how science is evolving to use this model organism in new ways
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@relenski.bsky.social traces the legacy of Escherichia coli and how science is evolving to use this model organism in new ways
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 9, 2026 at 11:09 AM
New Microbe Matters!
@relenski.bsky.social traces the legacy of Escherichia coli and how science is evolving to use this model organism in new ways
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@relenski.bsky.social traces the legacy of Escherichia coli and how science is evolving to use this model organism in new ways
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New Perspective!
Navigating the duality of Akkermansia muciniphila
by Erica Grant, Elena Monzel & Mahesh Desai
#microsky #microbiomesky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Navigating the duality of Akkermansia muciniphila
by Erica Grant, Elena Monzel & Mahesh Desai
#microsky #microbiomesky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 9, 2026 at 11:07 AM
New Perspective!
Navigating the duality of Akkermansia muciniphila
by Erica Grant, Elena Monzel & Mahesh Desai
#microsky #microbiomesky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Navigating the duality of Akkermansia muciniphila
by Erica Grant, Elena Monzel & Mahesh Desai
#microsky #microbiomesky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How can we tell whether an antibiotic eradicates an infection? Researchers from the @biomedizin.unibas.ch, at the @unibas.ch, present an antimicrobial single-cell microscopy-based method that measures antibiotic lethality in individual bacteria.
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@natmicrobiol.nature.com
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@natmicrobiol.nature.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:54 AM
How can we tell whether an antibiotic eradicates an infection? Researchers from the @biomedizin.unibas.ch, at the @unibas.ch, present an antimicrobial single-cell microscopy-based method that measures antibiotic lethality in individual bacteria.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@natmicrobiol.nature.com
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@natmicrobiol.nature.com