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This study used single-cell viral tagging to pair phages with their bacterial host in the human gut.

This study challenges the previous suggestion that many environmental bacteria have been cultured already and concludes that most remain uncultured.

This study shows that antibiotic persistence in Salmonella enterica can arise through slow growth alone without the need of previously suggested mechanisms.

The simultaneous, independent emergence of different clades of Candida auris and the high temperature tolerance of the species compared to other fungi has inspired researchers to propose links to climate change.

This study reports the identification and characterization of spindle-shaped viruses that infect a marine ammonia-oxidizing thaumarchaeon and that are distinct from other known marine viruses.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights the unique evolutionary history, metabolic functions, and newly identified viruses and associated mobile genetic elements for the highly abundant and ubiquitous ammonia-oxidizing archaea.

A supercomputing study determines the optimal cell shape of free-swimming bacteria.

The Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) study reports the results of a case–control study to characterize the causes of pneumonia in children without HIV infection from Africa and Asia.

This study reports that transduction of antibiotic resistance genes and lysogeny contribute to the survival of transducing phages and their hosts.

This study identifies the first effector of contractile injection systems with nuclease activity that targets eukaryotic organisms.

The results of this study suggest that the Mla pathway may be involved in anterograde phospholipid transport to the bacterial outer membrane.

This study explores the frequency of cross-contamination between samples in DNA sequence-based microbiome studies.

This study reports that lipid droplets provide a reservoir for a lipophilic tuberculosis drug and enhance drug efficacy.

Two papers provide novel insights into how Vibrio cholerae colonizes chitin, revealing the role of a type IV pilus and filamentation.

A new study investigates which strategies are effective to mitigate the effects of science denialism.

This study shows that the microbiota associated with farm houses also has a protective effect in non-farm houses as the risk of developing asthma decreases.

This month’s Under the Lens discusses the use of a novel label-free imaging method to study pilus dynamics at high spatial and temporal resolution.

A recent study reports an enzymatic pathway in the human gut microbiome that converts A type blood into the universal donor type, which could lead to an increase in the supply of universal donor blood.

This study reports a photocontrollable system for the spatiotemporal regulation of mononegavirus gene expression and replication.

The US government is halting funding for fetal tissue research conducted by government scientists.