Chicken salad sold at Georgia supermarket may be contaminated by Salmonella, officials say Health officials are urging people who bought chicken salad products from a Georgia supermarket to throw them away due to a potential Salmonella contamination.

#Chicken #salad sold at supermarket may be contaminated by #Salmonella ...

| #food | #bacteria | #contamination | #microbiology | #Georgia | Via @cbsnews.com

Strange Microbes Found in Shark Bay Could Reveal How Complex Life Began Microbes in Shark Bay, Australia show a possible model for how complex life began. Asgard archaea an...

Microbes in Shark Bay, Australia show a possible model for how complex life began. Asgard archaea and bacteria were found interacting through nanotubes, suggesting cooperation and shared resources in early cells. Published in Current Biology. #microbiology #News

Evaluation Of The Bacterial Diversity In The World’s Deepest Cave—Veryovkina, Arabika Massif, Western Caucasus - Astrobiology Veryovkina Cave is the world’s deepest known cave (2212 m deep)

Evaluation Of The Bacterial Diversity In The World’s Deepest Cave—Veryovkina, Arabika Massif, Western Caucasus
astrobiology.com/2026/04/eval... #astrobiology #microbiology #genomics #biosiversity #spelunking

From Asgard to Earth: Tiny Discoveries Hold Clues To Life’s Greatest Leap - Astrobiology Stromatolites – and their close relatives, microbial mats – could be mistaken for what seems like a bunch of old dark rocks.

From Asgard to Earth: Tiny Discoveries Hold Clues To Life’s Greatest Leap
astrobiology.com/2026/04/from... #astrobiology #microbiology #genomics

Virus from seafood is linked to a persistent eye disease in humans A virus that typically infects marine animals, such as shrimp and fish, has jumped to humans and is causing chronic eye disease in some people, according to a study published in the journal Nature…

#Virus from #seafood is linked to a persistent #eye #disease in humans ...

| #China | #microbiology | #nodavirus | #inflammation | #CovertMortalityNodavirus | Via @sciencex.bsky.social

Magnetomineralogical Spring School Day 2 🧲: From animal navigation 🐦🦋 to magnetofossils 🦴◼️◼️◼️ & Earth’s field impacts 🌍. Highlight: the lab for automated bacteria tracking 🤖🔬🦠.
We sampled our pond mud and found some cocci 🧪⚪. ​Watch these MTB pull a perfect U-turn! 🧲🔄🦠
#Geoscience​ #Microbiology #MTB

Anacanthotermes symbionts clarify the evolutionary history of termite-symbiotic Parabasalia
#microbiology #termites #protists #eukaryotes #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
doi.org/10.3389/fevo...

International Symposium on Plasmid Biology

International #Symposium on Plasmid Biology 2026 takes place in Berlin. Join global experts for 5 days of exchange on plasmid research. Registration is open and abstracts are invited (deadline 24 April).
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#PlasmidBiology2026 #ScientificConference #Microbiology #PlasmidResearch

Yes, technically I could avoid putting terrible jokes in my @pintofscience.uk talk in May, but it's my talk, and it's going in, and so there. 😅

#microbiology #scicomm #metal #heavymetal

Could sugar molecules from breast milk hold the key to treating metabolic syndrome?

Recent analysis shows HMOs offer a promising non-invasive way to manage weight and insulin sensitivity via gut bacteria.

The science of "Nature's first functional food" is evolving.

#Science #Health #Microbiology

Brand of chicken fillets recalled over salmonella concern The FSAI has today (Thursday, April 9) recalled Pettitt's Cook at Home Basil & Pesto Chicken Fillets due to the presence of salmonella.

#Chicken #fillets recalled due to #salmonella concern ...

| #bacteria | #Microbiology | #MicroSky | #food | #pathogen | Via @agriland.bsky.social

Exploring the Future of Diabetic Foot Infection Diagnostics IDSA #Microbiology #DiabeticFoot #InfectiousDiseases diabeticfootonline.c...

Redox distribution Of Asgard Archaea And Co-occurring Taxa In Microbial Mats From An Early Proterozoic Ecosystem Analog
astrobiology.com/2026/04/redo... #astrobiology #extremophile #microbiology #evolution

Microbial hockey At the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), researchers resemble blacksmiths as they toil with bacteria. When placed in water, E. coli help form gel-like aggregates and, as now…

#Microbial #hockey ...

| #Ecoli | #flagella | #microbiology | #biofilms | By @istaresearch.bsky.social via @eurekalert.bsky.social

Magnetomineralogical Spring School Day 1: After some great #microbiology talks, we hit the local ponds 🦠 for sampling. 🔬Check out these Magnetospirillum zoomies! We had a blast playing "Wildtype or Mutant?"🧫 trying to guess who’s who 🕵️‍♂️🧲
#MagnetotacticBacteria #Geoscience #ScienceQuest #ScienceIsFun

New preprint!
Using cutting edge epigenomics, we comprehensively identified DNA methylation in the model oral pathogen Streptococcus mutans UA159 and uncovered its three distinct sources. #microbiology #dentistry

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Flea-borne typhus surges across LA County with 90% of cases requiring hospitalization Los Angeles County is experiencing a record number of flea-borne typhus cases, and nearly 90% of patients have had to be hospitalized.

#Flea-borne #typhus surges across #LA County with 90% of cases requiring #hospitalization ...

| #LosAngeles | #microbiology | #bacteria | #infections | Via @abc7community.bsky.social

Sulfur-Enhanced Fumarate Metabolism in Sulfurospirillum tamanense: Evidence for Cryptic Sulfur Cycling
#microbiology #sulfur #biochemistry #MicroSky
doi.org/10.1134/S002...

Nucleomorph #phylogenomics suggests a deep and ancient origin of cryptophyte #plastids within Rhodophyta
#microbiology #algae #eukaryotes #MicroSky
doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Chickenpox spreads rapidly in Rohingya camps Chickenpox infections have surged in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, with over 8,700 cases reported in the past three months, raising concern among health officials.

#Chickenpox spreads rapidly in #Rohingya #camps ...

| #virus | #microbiology | #infections | #publichealth | Via thedailystar .net

Do you know that #termite guts are a hotspot of #spirochete diversity?
Some of the spirochetes get really big, more than 100 µm.
#microbiology #bacteria #eukaryotes
doi.org/10.1186/s129...

A study in Nature #Microbiology links covert mortality nodavirus (CMNV) - found in #shrimp / #fish - to rising #eye #infections in China. Risk factors: handling raw #seafood + eating it uncooked. #OneHealth
www.linkedin.com/posts/drmelv...

RSV remains at high levels in northeast Wisconsin Data from Wisconsin DHS shows while RSV is at moderate levels statewide, it remains high in northeast Wisconsin, even as influenza and COVID-19 cases decline.

#RSV remains at high levels in northeast #Wisconsin ...

| #immunizations | #microbiology | #RespiratorySyncytialVirus | #infections | #publichealth | Via @wbay.com

Ever go to dispense antibiotic disks and the stamper is stuck? 😅

Luis shares a quick tip when handling multi-disc dispensers while discussing CLSI M100 updates with Dr. April Bobenchik.

Any tips you use?

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#letstalkmicro #podcast #microbiology

Antibiotic resistance in India has consequences everywhere | Aeon Essays Easy access to desperately needed drugs has made India the global accelerant of our antimicrobial resistance crisis

The #antibiotic trap ...

| #AMR | #microbiology | #publichealth | #antimicrobialresistance | #India | Via @aeon.co

Novel treatment protocol targets the deadliest cases of C. difficile infection A new study from the University of Minnesota Medical School has demonstrated that fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) can rapidly reverse systemic inflammation and improve survival in patients…

Novel #treatment protocol targets the deadliest incidences of #Clostridioides difficile #infection ...

| #bacteria | #microbiology | #microbiota | #fecal | #diarrhea | Via @sciencex.bsky.social

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Capturing the extensive diversity of marine anaerobic scuticociliates (Oligohymenophorea, Ciliophora) through cultivation
#microbiology #eukaryotes #protists #ciliates #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
doi.org/10.1007/s429...

Unbinned contigs expand known diversity in the global microbiome - Nature Microbiology Re-analysis of over 92,000 metagenomes reveals hundreds of thousands of previously undescribed Bacterial and Archaeal clades hidden in plain sight.

Unbinned contigs expand known diversity in the global microbiome
#microbiology #microbiome #taxonomy #MicroSky
@natmicrobiol.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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