Like a prophage being awakened from its slumber, the phage field has seen a lot of renewed activity during the last decade. Check out our new @natrevmicro.nature.com review on the temperate phage life cycle here to stay up-to-date 🧫🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🎉Excited to share our new preprint!
TIR domains from diverse animals, including human TLR4, are catalytically active and produce cyclic ADP-ribose (cADPR). This enzymatic activity is widespread in animals and conserved across the tree of life.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Thanks @richardastone.bsky.social !
One of my favorite scientist in the field is opening his lab in Europe 🥳🇪🇺🧬.
So happy about this and excited about the science that will come out of this lab!
Awesome!
Happy to share our latest pre-print on the Druantia defense system.
We find that Type III Druantia uses a cooperative helicase-nuclease mechanism to sense and degrade replication-associated forked DNA structures.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Congratulations to @aragucci.bsky.social and @sadieantine.bsky.social for their nuclease-NTPase work now online in final form at @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
❤️this Perspective from @jennifergarrison.bsky.social strongly advocating that:
🥚 ovarian biology has systemic effects in women
❌has been neglected long enough thank you very much
👩🦳 ovarian aging should be at the center of female geroscience
Hear her roar indeed (Blsky profile)!
plos.io/4dOqcZw
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That's a wrap on three days of incredible science at #SISB2026! Special thanks to @rockefeller.edu for hosting us on their beautiful campus, to our speakers and poster presenters, and most of all to this community that never fails to inspire. Can't wait for #SISB2027 🫶
Great piece and cover @science.org about how our field is uncovering the evolutionary and mechanistic connections between bacterial and eukaryotic immunity !
www.science.org/content/article/ancient-wars-between-microbes-gave-us-key-immune-defenses