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Lysosomal cholesterol overload impairs the innate'adaptive immune axis in tuberculosis granulomas - Nature Microbiology
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (167+ words) Nature Microbiology (2026) Cite this article Chandra, P. , Grigsby, S. J. & Philips, J. A. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 20, 750766 (2022). Lin, P. L. et al. Nat. Med. 20, 7579 (2014). Krishna Prasad, G. V. R. et al. Nat. Commun. 16, 6794 (2025). Srivastava, S. & Ernst, J. D. J. Immunol. 191, 10161020 (2013). Harper, J. et al. J. Infect. Dis. 205, 595602 (2012). Maceiras, A. R. et al. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 15, 1724798 (2025). Russell, D. G. , Cardona, P. -J. , Kim,…...
Soma-to-germline mi RNA inheritance through yolk promotes stress resilience in progeny - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (1696+ words) Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (2026) Cite this article Together, these data indicate that mi RNAs travel with yolk into oocytes and are inherited in two-cell embryos. Overall, these results suggest that mi RNAs synthesized in the mother's intestine are imported into…...
A method that TRACS multi-species transmission at scale - Nature Microbiology
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (207+ words) Nature Microbiology (2026) Cite this article Hodcroft, E. B. et al. Spread of a SARS-Co V-2 variant through Europe in the summer of 2020. Nature 595, 707712 (2021). This paper demonstrates how genomic epidemiology can be used to track the spread of SARS-Co V-2 strains across populations. Harris, S. R. et…...
Cold atmospheric plasma for bacterial inactivation in Nile water and wastewater - Scientific Reports
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (1088+ words) Previous studies focused mainly on model water or single bacterial strains; research on complex natural matrices like Nile water and raw wastewater is limited12. This study examines CAP-induced bacterial inactivation kinetics in those systems by combining microbiological analysis, plasma diagnostics, and…...
Mobile intron RNA from a bacterial predator accumulates in dead archaeal cells - Scientific Reports
2+ week, 6+ day ago (546+ words) The dataset reanalysed during the current study is available from the NCBI repository [SRR30230645]. This study was funded by the Max Planck Society. These authors contributed equally: Jana Kizina and Almud Lonsing. Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany J. K. and…...
Structural basis for recognition of diverse localizing m RNAs by Egl'Bic D - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1771+ words) Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (2026)Cite this article Cryo-EM samples were imaged using a FEI Titan Krios (300k V) equipped with a K3 detector and an energy filter with a 20-e V slit size (Gatan). Automated data collection was performed using Thermo Fisher EPU....
Integrated MINFLUX tracking reveals two distinct chromatin dynamics classes across cell types - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1711+ words) Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (2026)Cite this article Lomvardas, S. et al. Interchromosomal interactions and olfactory receptor choice. Cell 126, 403413 (2006). Yang, J. H. & Hansen, A. S. Enhancer selectivity in space and time: from enhancerpromoter interactions to promoter activation. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 25, 574591 (2024). Cardona, A. H. , Peixoto, M. M. , Borjigin, T. & Gregor,…...
Escherichia coli capsules enjoy a genomic revival - Nature Microbiology
3+ week, 6+ day ago (150+ words) Capsular polysaccharides are central to Escherichia coli virulence, but the scarcity of molecular typing has hindered research and development of drug or vaccine candidates. Two studies redefine the diversity, epidemiology and evolutionary dynamics of E. coli capsules by providing tools to…...
Peptide Nucleic Acids and Their Applications in Molecular Biology
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (181+ words) Explore research topics across seven scientific disciplines. Search and discover topics from Applied sciences, Biological sciences, Chemistry, Earth & environmental sciences, Health sciences, Physical sciences, and Social sciences. View the latest institution rankings View the latest Country/territory rankings The Nature…...
Strain-level transmission inference across multi-kingdom metagenomic data using TRACS - Nature Microbiology
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1625+ words) The TRACS algorithm is implemented in python and C++, and is available under the MIT open source licence20. To assess the ability of TRACS to accurately estimate small genetic distances in pairs of samples containing multiple strains of the same species,…...