🦠🧬 Some #bacteria have repurposed ancient #viruses into #gene transfer agents that shuttle #DNA between cells—including genes that can contribute to #AntibioticResistance.
#Microbes #Bacteria #Phages #AMR #Microsky via @theconversation.com

Albury Wodonga Health tells doctors to send patients home early as it struggles to meet an "overwhelming" demand amid a major late-season flu spike. #influenza #public #health #viruses #healthcare #facilities #administration #regional #communities
In a new Focus in #ScienceSignaling, scientists examine pioneering results from a recent paper in #ScienceMagazine, which decoded how #viruses co-opt the ubiquitin-proteasome system in host cells to interfere with innate immune defenses. https://scim.ag/46ViQAb
My colleagues from @i2sysbio.es published a paper showing that host age is the major driver of virulence evolution
#viruses #microsky
Can an ancient virus be brought back to life? What 500‑year‑old smallpox DNA reveals
#Health #Smallpox #AncientDNA #Science #History #Virology #Chile #IndigenousHistory #PublicHealth #Archaeology #Evolution #Viruses #Mummies #Americas #Pathogens #The14Media
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Can an ancient virus be brought back to life? What 500-year-old smallpox DNA reveals#Chile #Mummies #Pathogens #Smallpox #Viruses
New Immune Mechanism Revealed in the Cellular Trash
#PersonalizedMedicine #Viruses #Microorganisms #MolecularBiology #CellBiology #Immunology #Disease #Drugs #Diagnostics
New Immune Mechanism Revealed in the Cellular Trash
#PersonalizedMedicine #Viruses #Microorganisms #MolecularBiology #CellBiology #Immunology #Disease #Drugs #Diagnostics
Our newest: Antiviral & inflammatory proteome is regulated by a logic timer imparted by #mitochondria activity...what if mitos. were not co-opted for energy but host defense?...implications for non-infectious diseases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #viruses #evolution @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social
Our New: Going places -- us w/ Steve Baker @sfbkr.bsky.social...how trafficking to and from #mitochondria can shape infection outcomes as part of Journal of Virology @jvico-eics.bsky.social New Voices in Virology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #viruses
🦠💊 A promising compound reduced #Enterovirus #D68 by ~1,000-fold in lab tests and protected infected animals by blocking a host-cell pathway #viruses exploit to replicate.
#Infection #Antivirals #Drugs #Biomedical #Microsky via @sciencex.bsky.social
🐔🦟 #Delaware uses sentinel #chickens as an early-warning system for #WestNileVirus and #EEE because the #birds develop detectable #antibodies without spreading the #viruses.
#WNV #PublicHealth #Mosquitoes #PublicHealth #Microsky via @theguardian.com
Bacterial Communities Go Synchronized Swimming
#TheoreticalPhysics #Microorganisms #Viruses
Bacterial Communities Go Synchronized Swimming
#TheoreticalPhysics #Microorganisms #Viruses
Bacteria on the #Brain
#Cancer #CellBiology #Disease #Drugs #Microorganisms #Viruses
Bacteria on the #Brain
#Cancer #CellBiology #Disease #Drugs #Microorganisms #Viruses
A new tool could help prepare us for the next viral threat
#Biotechnology #Disease #Drugs #Science #Viruses
A new tool could help prepare us for the next viral threat
#Biotechnology #Disease #Drugs #Science #Viruses
Why did some #viruses evolve to be #giants while others did not? Our perspective piece on this topic with Eugene Koonin. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...