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Maternal instincts During pregnancy, mothers produce a powerful antibody to protect their newborns from infection

👶 Newborns enter the world with immature immune systems—but they’re not defenseless.

Mothers pass down protective antibodies during pregnancy and through breast milk, shielding babies from harmful infections. 🦠 #WorldBreastfeedingWeek

Phage discovery gets is 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.

Phage discovery can be long and drawn out, but scientists are ready to get down with this groovy new method that skips the hassle.

Had a lot of fun with this one! 🪩 🕺 ✨

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Transmissible microbiomes Can person-to-person interactions define your innermost microbes?

Did you know? More than 50% of a baby’s gut microbes are seeded by the mother at birth and during breastfeeding.

These early microbial allies shape immunity and metabolism for years to come.

🦠 A healthy start begins with mothers.

#WorldBreastfeedingWeek

Transmissible microbiomes Can person-to-person interactions define your innermost microbes?

👶🏽 Today starts #WorldBreastfeedingWeek.

Breastfeeding isn’t just about nourishment— it boosts immunity, brain development, and even seeds the infant's microbiome—setting the stage for lifelong health.

Soil Bacteria: Protozoan Prey or Potential Pathogen? The virulence of environmental microbial populations might hinge on who doesn’t become the protozoans’ lunch.

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Soil Bacteria: Protozoan Prey or Potential Pathogen?🤔

The virulence of environmental microbial populations might hinge on who doesn’t become the protozoans’ lunch. 🦠

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Bacillus megaterium favours CO₂ mineralization into CaCO₃ over the ureolytic pathway - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Bacillus megaterium favours CO₂ mineralization into CaCO₃ over the ureolytic pathway

🧱 Bacteria that build with CO₂?

This study shows Bacillus megaterium prefers turning CO₂ into solid calcite instead of breaking down urea, paving the way for greener, cement-free materials that store carbon.

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#SciComm #CarbonCapture #Microbiology 🧪

The New Biome in Town You’ve heard of the gut microbiome and the skin microbiome. Now introducing the kidney microbiome!

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The New Biome in Town 🦠

You’ve heard of the gut microbiome and the skin microbiome. Now introducing the kidney microbiome! 👇

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Codon Trash? Dengue Calls It Treasure! The Secret Code of Dengue: Using Non-Optimal Codons to Win the Game?

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Codon Trash? Dengue Calls It Treasure! 🦟

The Secret Code of Dengue: Using Non-Optimal Codons to Win the Game? 👇

The infectious viral loops HIV-1 virus infects human immune cells by producing 15 different circular RNAs.

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The infectious viral loops ➰

HIV-1 virus infects human immune cells by producing 15 different circular RNAs. 🦠

Roping in Resistant Microbial Outlaws Howdy! Allow me to introduce you to the new sheriff in town: lariocidin, a potent antimicrobial lasso peptide.

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Roping in Resistant Microbial Outlaws 🤠

Howdy! Allow me to introduce you to the new sheriff in town: lariocidin, a potent antimicrobial lasso peptide. 🦠

The dark side of plastic-degrading bacteria in healthcare While the ability to degrade plastics might seem beneficial, it poses a threat to the integrity of medical devices and increases the risk of infections.

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The dark side of plastic-degrading bacteria in healthcare ⚕️

While the ability to degrade plastics might seem beneficial, it poses a threat to the integrity of medical devices and… 🦠

Beyond oxygen: an electric way to thrive Researchers found E. coli can perform extracellular anaerobic respiration, growing without carbon energy sources.

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Beyond oxygen: an electric way to thrive ⚡

Researchers found E. coli can perform extracellular anaerobic respiration, growing without carbon energy sources. 🦠

Yesterday our co-founder Anaïs discussed with doctoral students their Publithon as part of @comsciconfra.bsky.social 2025 conference 🥳

The students will be publishing their article on our platform in the next few months.

Thanks to the team for inviting MicroBites to take part!

Entacapone- A Promising Therapy for the Brain but a Potential Threat to Gut Health? The drug entacapone disrupts the gut microbiome, leading to implications for host health.

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Entacapone- A Promising Therapy for the Brain but a Potential Threat to Gut Health? 💩

The drug entacapone disrupts the gut microbiome, leading to implications for host health. 🦠

Beating the Heat: How the Fungus Live Among Us Three pathogenic fungus strains offer different methods for enduring the human body’s core temperature.

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Beating the Heat: How the Fungus Live Among Us 🥵

Three pathogenic fungus strains offer different methods for enduring the human body’s core temperature. 🍄 👇

How a Few Mutations Could Reignite a Deadly Virus Just a few mutations could bring back the mosquito-borne Western Equine Encephalitis Virus.

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How a Few Mutations Could Reignite a Deadly Virus 🦠

Just a few mutations could bring back the mosquito-borne Western Equine Encephalitis Virus. 🦟

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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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… 🦠

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Microbe with bizarrely tiny genome may be evolving into a virus With DNA focused almost entirely on replication, newly discovered organism blurs the line between cells and viruses

𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘂𝘀
or maybe not. a 🧵

roland @environmicrobio.bsky.social‬ ‪and Krzysztof @ktjurdzinski.bsky.social‬ already commented, please also read their posts.
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HD5: The Secret Trick of Shigella Infection How a pesky microbe’s infectiousness comes from exploiting the body’s immune system to gain entry into host cells.

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HD5: The Secret Trick of Shigella Infection🦠

How a pesky microbe’s infectiousness comes from exploiting the body’s immune system to gain entry into host cells. 👇

Probiotics: future of food safety? Aflatoxin, a toxic fungi, can lurk in foods. Researchers are exploring a natural solution: probiotic bacteria found in yoghurt. Can these friendly microbes help to make our food safe?

Today is #WorldFoodSafetyDay!

🔬 Controlling aflatoxins with chemicals is hard—and unsafe long-term. Probiotics and plant-based antifungals offer safer, natural alternatives. The future of food safety is green.

What the Gut’s First Residents Say About Baby’s Brain Health Newborns’ first gut microbes may predict social development at 6 months, revealing early links between microbiome and brain health.

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What the Gut’s First Residents Say About Baby’s Brain Health 👶 🧠

Newborns’ first gut microbes may predict social development at 6 months, revealing early links between microbiome and brain health. 🦠

Enzymes degrading plastic – an eco-friendly solution to plastic pollution Novel enzymes can break down plastics into biodegradable compounds. This process can be accelerated by adding biofilms to the mix.

Today is World Environment Day 2025: #BeatPlasticPollution

💡 What if bacteria could eat your plastic waste? Researchers engineered biofilm-forming bacteria that break down PET more efficiently—turning trash into biodegradable treasure.

Sepsis Survival Dependent on Gut Microbiota Sepsis survival is influenced by gut microbiota, AhR activation, and metabolites like indoles and tryptophan, improving immune response.

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Sepsis Survival Dependent on Gut Microbiota🐭

Sepsis survival is influenced by gut microbiota, AhR activation, and metabolites like indoles and tryptophan, improving immune response. 🦠

Bacteria help beetles adapt to climate change Wolbachia infection enabled host beetles to adjust male egg size in response to stressful environments.

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Bacteria help beetles adapt to climate change 🦠

Wolbachia infection enabled host beetles to adjust male egg size in response to stressful environments. 🐞

Don’t Go Infecting My Heart Heartworm’s tools for host survival might provide a way to combat the growing threat it presents in humans and canines.

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Don’t Go Infecting My Heart ❤️

Heartworm’s tools for host survival might provide a way to combat the growing threat it presents in humans and canines. 🦠

Microbial molecular warfare: When prey becomes predator Researchers investigate how some bacteria fight back against one of their predators: Amoebas.

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Microbial molecular warfare: When prey becomes predator ⚔️

Researchers investigate how some bacteria fight back against one of their predators: Amoebas. 🦠

Unveiling the Hidden World: The Global Atlas of Soil Viruses Opening a new window into the diverse and ecological roles of viruses living in our soils.

Today is International Day for Biological Diversity!

🌍 Beneath our feet lies a viral universe. The new Global Soil Virus Atlas uncovered over 600,000 viral genomes in soil samples worldwide—highlighting biodiversity we’re just beginning to understand.

“Royal microbes”, the court of the queen bee. Four bacterial species compose the microbiome of the honey queen bee and provide a nutritional and protective role

🐝 On #WorldBeeDay, meet the real royal court: the Queen Bee’s gut microbiome! Four core bacteria support her health, immunity, and colony success. Long live the queen... and her microbes. 👑🦠

The Hidden Link: How Animals Could Fuel the Spread of COVID-19 Viral infections in animals

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The Hidden Link: How Animals Could Fuel the Spread of COVID-19 ❔

Viral infections in animals 👇 🦠

The Gut Fingerprint Just like the fingerprints, every human has a personal gut microbiome.

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The Gut Fingerprint 💩

Just like the fingerprints, every human has a personal gut microbiome. 👇