RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Committee Likely to Target Hepatitis B Shot for Newborns Committee members, some of whom are vaccine skeptics, are likely to recommend restricting the use of the shots at birth or delaying them until later in childhood.

CDC committee members, some of whom are vaccine skeptics, are likely to recommend restricting the use of hepatitis B shots at birth or delaying them. The vaccine is credited by public health experts with nearly eliminating maternal transmission of the disease in the U.S.

CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE - Clip ROBERT REDFORD: Salk Institute -- La Jolla, California, USA - HD YouTube video by neueroadmovies

Robert Redford (RIP) survived a childhood bout of polio though bedridden for 2 weeks

In 2014, he directed a short film on the architecture and mission of La Jolla's Salk Institute—honoring founder Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine that has saved countless lives, and architect Louis Kahn

A fungal pathobiont promotes Streptococcus agalactiae vaginal persistence and pathogenesis through physical and metabolic interactions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09....

Role of Formyl Peptide Receptor 2 and Toll-Like Receptor 2 in Skin Barrier Function and Atopic Dermatitis The skin acts as a barrier against external threats and plays an important role in tissue repair. Skin cells, including keratinocytes, sense microbe-a…

How do keratinocytes sense bacterial commensals or pathogens?
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Here is our recent review:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our new review “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘝𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘔𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤-𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘴” is out

Compared to antibiotics, vaccines:

✓ Act prophylactically at low pathogen burden

✓ Less prone to inducing resistance due to multifactorial nature of immune pressure

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Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

“Long after Trump is gone, we will still be facing the realities he created... It’s people who will get cancer in 10, 20, or 30 years who will really pay the price for these cuts.”

#AcademicSky
#MedSky

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Overlap with ICLB (news.mayocliniclabs.com/2025-interna...), but I encourage all non-Lyme bacteriologists to attend this meeting 💪

Was so fun! 😀

Applications are open for the 2025 GRS/GRC on Staphylococcal Diseases! Make sure to get your abstracts submitted for the potential to present your work in beautiful Barcelona! www.grc.org/staphylococc...

FIG 1 Three different types of bacterial extracellular vesicles produced by Gram-negative organisms via nonlytic and lytic mechanisms. OMV, outer membrane vesicle; EOMV, explosive outer membrane vesicle; OIMV, outer inner membrane vesicle.

Just became open access at MMBR:
Outer Membrane Vesicles: Biogenesis, Functions, and Issues
by R Juodeikis & SR Carding

How should we distinguish OMVs from other types of bacterial extracellular vesicles?
#Microsky

Awesome!

Vaginal Lactobacillus fatty acid response mechanisms reveal a novel strategy for bacterial vaginosis treatment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.30.573720v1 Bacterial vaginosis (BV), a common syndrome characterized by Lactobacillus-deficient vaginal microbi

Vaginal Lactobacillus fatty acid response mechanisms reveal a novel strategy for bacterial vaginosis treatment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12....

Fig 4 XYGUL, an example of a polysaccharide utilization locus. A simplified explanation of the multiprotein complex known as the XYGUL system of B. ovatus.

The latest from MMBR, an evo-devo romp by GW Tannock:

Understanding the gut microbiota by considering human evolution: a story of fire, cereals, cooking, molecular ingenuity, and functional cooperation.
doi.org/10.1128/mmbr...

Happy New Year from Doran Lab!