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Microbe Talk - Hidden Companions: How Parasites are Adapting to a Changing World
December 17, 2025
The relationship between humans and parasites is changing along with the climate crisis, globalisation, and innovations in science. In this month's Microbe Talk, we chat to expert Kinga Kowalewska-Grochowska at the University of Alberta, Canada, about the evolutions in how we look at parasites, where they are found, and what the future holds for diagnosing and treating these illnesses. This follows Kowalewska-Grochowska's latest review 'Parasitology of the twenty-first century: are we moving in the right direction?', published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology.
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Patching up pandemic preparedness: a needle-free approach to influenza vaccination
December 15, 2025
Chris McMillan and Chloe Entriken of the University of Queensland, Australia, take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Improved efficacy of an influenza DNA vaccine through high-density microarray patch delivery' published in the Journal of General Virology.
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Putting Oxford Nanopore Technology to the Test
December 9, 2025
Taylor Schababerle of the University of Texas, US, take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Reproducibility and accuracy of bacterial methylome profiling using Oxford Nanopore Technologies nanopore sequencing platform' published in Microbial Genomics.
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Editor's Spotlight: Vaccination and evolutionary parallels between two strains of whooping cough bacteria
December 2, 2025
In this Editor’s Spotlight, Senior Editor, Jesse Shapiro, takes a closer look at this featured paper ‘No innocent bystanders: pertussis vaccination and evolutionary parallelisms between Bordetella parapertussis and Bordetella pertussis’, recently published in Microbial Genomics.
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New to Science: The latest discoveries from around the world
December 1, 2025
Each month, the Microbiology Society publishes the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, which details newly discovered species of bacteria, fungi and protists. Here are some of the new species that have been discovered and the places they've been found.
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Understanding how common food preservatives impact Salmonella
November 12, 2025
Prof Mark Webber from the Quadram Institute, UK, take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Common food preservatives induce an oxidative stress response in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium' published in Microbiology.
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Microbe Talk - The Kocurious Case of Noodlococcus: From Discovery to Community
November 6, 2025
In 2019, a mysterious contaminant lead to the start of Contamination Club, an online club dedicated to weird and wonderful intruders. In this month's Microbe Talk, two of the team, Rob Moran and Greg McCallum, join us to talk about their journey and the online community that they've built.
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How Bacteria Tie Knots: Unravelling a Hidden Weakness in Deadly Pathogens
November 5, 2025
Cristina Landeta of the Indiana University Bloomington, US, take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Disulphide bond-forming enzymes in clostridial species' published in Microbiology.