📣 New MicroBites! Antibiotic Resistance Potential of ESKAPE Pathogens 💊 Multidrug-resistant infections are a growing global threat, driven by diverse bacterial resistance mechanisms, complicating efforts to develop effective, long-lasting antibiotics. 🦠

📣 New MicroBites! Is the Microbiome Overrated? 🦠 A medical humanities perspective on the way researchers talk about the microbiome. 👇

From Therapy to Threat: Antibiotics and the Resistome Antibiotics revolutionized medicine — but overuse turned them into a global threat. 🌍💊 Discover how resistance genes evolve and spread across ecosystems in our latest piece. 🔗 buff.ly/byqVu8x #WAAW2025 #AMR #OneHealth

Phage Disco: The Comeback of Phage Discovery When antibiotics fail, bacteriophages step back into the spotlight! 🎶🔬 Dive into the “phage disco” — where viruses that kill bacteria might help us fight AMR. 🔗 buff.ly/HKrI4VG #WAAW2025 #PhageTherapy #AMR

Exploiting Fitness Costs to Reimagine the AMR Fight Can evolution help us outsmart resistance? 🧠💥 Learn how researchers turn bacteria’s own fitness trade-offs into an advantage in the battle against AMR. 🔗 buff.ly/HlmjzjJ #WAAW2025 #Microbiology #AMRResearch

Teamwork in Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance No one beats AMR alone. Collaboration between clinicians, farmers, policymakers & scientists is key to protect our present and secure our future. 🌍💪 🔗 buff.ly/OtF0O1v #WAAW2025 #OneHealth #ActNow

A New Fungal Fighter A novel antifungal discovery could tip the scales in our fight against drug resistance! 🧫⚔️ Meet the next-generation compounds targeting tough fungal infections. 🔗 buff.ly/QbxXf6K #WAAW2025 #Antifungal #AMR

Bacteria’s First Response: Epigenetics & Resistance Resistance isn’t always genetic — sometimes it’s epigenetic! 🧬 Discover how bacteria “remember” antibiotic exposure and adapt faster than we think. 🔗 buff.ly/ZYvvJim #WAAW2025 #Epigenetics #AMR

Today starts AMR awareness week! 💊 That’s Metal! Tackling AMR with Bismuth Could metals help fight superbugs? ⚡️🧫 Learn how bismuth-based compounds disrupt bacterial defenses — an old element with new promise! 🔗 buff.ly/QeaI9Xg #WAAW2025 #Innovation #AMR

📣 New MicroBites! Have We Always Been Alone? 🦠 More specific searches for signs of extraterrestrial life might provide the answers we seek on the Red Planet. 👽

📣 New MicroBites! How do plants perceive their microbiome? 🌱 In this interview, researcher Andreas Keppler explains how plants determine whether to fight or welcome the microbes that colonize them.… 🦠 👇

📣 New MicroBites! When Microbes Become Master Chocolatiers 🍫 Fine chocolate owes its depth to microbes, tiny chocolatiers fermenting cocoa bean pulp into the complex flavors we crave. 🦠

📣 New MicroBites! Engineered Parasites as Potential Treatments for Neurological Disorders 🦠 Engineered parasites like Toxoplasma gondii offer novel, targeted therapies for brain disorders by delivering treatments directly into neurons. 🧠

How can cities grow without harming the planet? 💚 Scientists are turning to an unexpected ally — algae. These tiny organisms can power buildings, clean wastewater, and even fuel cars. Smart cities start at the microscopic level. 🌿🏙️ #WorldCitiesDay

📣 New MicroBites! Unexpected baby-guardians 👶 On Mum’s gut bacteria and how they could boost her baby’s healthy development and avoid preeclampsia 🦠

📣 New MicroBites! Using urine to detect fungal infection 🍄 How a new test can figure out if patients have a fungal infection 🦠

📣 New MicroBites! Baking Better Bread 🍞 To customize sourdough bread to your specific preferences, you may just need to pick the right microorganisms for the job 🦠

Today is #WorldFoodDay Imagine food made from food waste — nutritious, flavorful, and zero-waste. Thanks to solid-state fermentation, fungi like Neurospora intermedia are showing us how to turn today’s leftovers into tomorrow’s meals. 🔄🌾

📣 New MicroBites! Gut Inflammation Disrupts Hormone Signals and the Brain 🧠 Reproductive hormones in male mice are susceptible to gut inflammation during early life. 🦠

📣 New MicroBites! ‘Pharaoh’s curse fungus’ turned into a cure for cancer 🍄 The deadly fungus, Aspergillus flavus, once denoted as the ‘Pharaoh’s curse fungus’, has now been found to cure leukaemia. 👇

This week is #WorldSpaceWeek! Microbes don’t need a ticket to space — they hitch a ride with us! 🦠 In microgravity, bacteria like Streptococcus mutans may behave differently, even increasing risks like tooth decay. Keeping astronauts healthy means understanding the unseen. 🧬

📣 New MicroBites! Amoeba and Bacteria, Newfound Friends? 🦠 How an amoeba can help bacteria resist antimicrobials. 💊

🌍🦠 Happy #InternationalMicroorganismDay! MicroBites joined the fun at the Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels 🎉 Fermented foods, microalgae, mushroom leather & more 🍄✨ Huge thanks to the Young Belgian Society for Microbiology & all the young scientists sharing their passion! 💡 #IMD2025

Today is International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies! What if the smog outside your window isn’t just hurting your lungs—but also rewriting the microbes inside your gut? 🦠💨 The link between air pollution and our microbiome could reshape how we think about clean air.

📣 New MicroBites! Breaking the Grass Ceiling: CBD Improves Female Depression 👩 A new study shows CBD treatment helped decrease symptoms of depression in mice consuming a high fat diet. 🐭 🦠

📣 New MicroBites! Trust Your Gut, It’s Working Out 💪 Newly-discovered links between exercise, the microbiome, and immunotherapy paint a compelling picture in the fight against cancer. 🦠

📣 New MicroBites! From Therapy to Threat: Antibiotics and the Resistome 🦠 Antibiotic-induced dysbiosis disrupts gut microbial harmony, fuel resistance gene spread, and triggers inflammation—reshaping immunity, brain health, and future disease risks. 💊

📣 New MicroBites! Plastic to Paracetamol: Manufactured by E. coli 💊 E. coli bacteria help convert plastic waste into paracetamol, thus addressing the concerns of environmental pollution and extensive fossil fuel… 🦠

📣 New MicroBites! Phage discovery gets its groove back with Phage DisCo 🔮 Phage discovery can be long and drawn out, but scientists are ready to get down with this groovy new method… 👇

📣 New MicroBites! High-Dose Probiotics Improve Mood in Stress Model 🐭 Combined treatment with Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium improved stress-related depression and anxiety in mice. 🦠

📣 New MicroBites! How scientists spy on bacteriophages inside your belly 🕵️ Scientists made glowing phages to track their spread inside the guts, revealing their effects on bacterial communities. 🦠

👶 Newborns enter the world with immature immune systems—but they’re not defenseless. Mothers pass down protective antibodies during pregnancy and through breast milk, shielding babies from harmful infections. 🦠 #WorldBreastfeedingWeek

Phage discovery can be long and drawn out, but scientists are ready to get down with this groovy new method that skips the hassle. Had a lot of fun with this one! 🪩 🕺 ✨ @microbites.bsky.social micro-bites.org/2025/08/02/p...

Did you know? More than 50% of a baby’s gut microbes are seeded by the mother at birth and during breastfeeding. These early microbial allies shape immunity and metabolism for years to come. 🦠 A healthy start begins with mothers. #WorldBreastfeedingWeek

👶🏽 Today starts #WorldBreastfeedingWeek. Breastfeeding isn’t just about nourishment— it boosts immunity, brain development, and even seeds the infant's microbiome—setting the stage for lifelong health.

📣 New MicroBites! Soil Bacteria: Protozoan Prey or Potential Pathogen?🤔 The virulence of environmental microbial populations might hinge on who doesn’t become the protozoans’ lunch. 🦠 buff.ly/JTdWkm6

🧱 Bacteria that build with CO₂? This study shows Bacillus megaterium prefers turning CO₂ into solid calcite instead of breaking down urea, paving the way for greener, cement-free materials that store carbon. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #CarbonCapture #Microbiology 🧪

📣 New MicroBites! The New Biome in Town 🦠 You’ve heard of the gut microbiome and the skin microbiome. Now introducing the kidney microbiome! 👇 buff.ly/8MzZcT2

📣 New MicroBites! Codon Trash? Dengue Calls It Treasure! 🦟 The Secret Code of Dengue: Using Non-Optimal Codons to Win the Game? 👇

📣 New MicroBites! The infectious viral loops ➰ HIV-1 virus infects human immune cells by producing 15 different circular RNAs. 🦠

📣 New MicroBites! Roping in Resistant Microbial Outlaws 🤠 Howdy! Allow me to introduce you to the new sheriff in town: lariocidin, a potent antimicrobial lasso peptide. 🦠

📣 New MicroBites! The dark side of plastic-degrading bacteria in healthcare ⚕️ While the ability to degrade plastics might seem beneficial, it poses a threat to the integrity of medical devices and… 🦠

📣 New MicroBites! Beyond oxygen: an electric way to thrive ⚡ Researchers found E. coli can perform extracellular anaerobic respiration, growing without carbon energy sources. 🦠

Yesterday our co-founder Anaïs discussed with doctoral students their Publithon as part of @comsciconfra.bsky.social 2025 conference 🥳 The students will be publishing their article on our platform in the next few months. Thanks to the team for inviting MicroBites to take part!

📣 New MicroBites! Entacapone- A Promising Therapy for the Brain but a Potential Threat to Gut Health? 💩 The drug entacapone disrupts the gut microbiome, leading to implications for host health. 🦠

📣 New MicroBites! Beating the Heat: How the Fungus Live Among Us 🥵 Three pathogenic fungus strains offer different methods for enduring the human body’s core temperature. 🍄 👇

📣 New MicroBites! How a Few Mutations Could Reignite a Deadly Virus 🦠 Just a few mutations could bring back the mosquito-borne Western Equine Encephalitis Virus. 🦟

📣 New MicroBites! Reimagining the AMR fight: Exploiting Fitness Costs 💊 How exploiting bacterial fitness costs can help us find a way to tackle resistance in bacteria and help us use… 🦠 buff.ly/xlra17R

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📣 New MicroBites! HD5: The Secret Trick of Shigella Infection🦠 How a pesky microbe’s infectiousness comes from exploiting the body’s immune system to gain entry into host cells. 👇