🫁 Investigators presented preclinical evidence of a safe and effective respiratory-delivered vaccine platform for inducing T cell-mediated sterilizing immunity against a respiratory pathogen.
@natmicrobiol.nature.com | https://go.nature.com/4p5zJiF
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November 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
🫁 Investigators presented preclinical evidence of a safe and effective respiratory-delivered vaccine platform for inducing T cell-mediated sterilizing immunity against a respiratory pathogen.
@natmicrobiol.nature.com | https://go.nature.com/4p5zJiF
@natmicrobiol.nature.com | https://go.nature.com/4p5zJiF
Magnusiomyces clavatus is an emerging fungal pathogen associated with severe systemic infections in immunocompromised patients. The latest issue of #G3journal features its newly generated genome, which will bring important diagnostic value to the clinic. buff.ly/NbOY5L1
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Magnusiomyces clavatus is an emerging fungal pathogen associated with severe systemic infections in immunocompromised patients. The latest issue of #G3journal features its newly generated genome, which will bring important diagnostic value to the clinic. buff.ly/NbOY5L1
Abstract submission open for #Fungal26 through Dec 4! Comparative & functional genomics, gene regulation, cell biology, biochemistry and metabolism, population & evolutionary genetics, host-pathogen interactions, ecology, and more. Can’t wait to see your science!
genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/...
genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/...
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Abstract submission open for #Fungal26 through Dec 4! Comparative & functional genomics, gene regulation, cell biology, biochemistry and metabolism, population & evolutionary genetics, host-pathogen interactions, ecology, and more. Can’t wait to see your science!
genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/...
genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/...
Thanks to the Council of Ontario Universities for coming to Queen’s Park to showcase how universities strengthen Ontario’s Life Sciences sector. We need more public investment in world-class research like Western’s Pathogen Research Centre to expand opportunities & improve lives. #onpse #onpoli
November 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
We are launching 3 new interactive #MedEd games in celebration of #WAAW2025!
First up: Microbe-ID 🧫🔍. Can you decipher the emojis to identify the pathogen? microbe-id.firstline.org
Educational content created by @idstewardship.bsky.social @tbrar7.bsky.social and Shaqil Peermohamed, MD #IDSky
First up: Microbe-ID 🧫🔍. Can you decipher the emojis to identify the pathogen? microbe-id.firstline.org
Educational content created by @idstewardship.bsky.social @tbrar7.bsky.social and Shaqil Peermohamed, MD #IDSky
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
We are launching 3 new interactive #MedEd games in celebration of #WAAW2025!
First up: Microbe-ID 🧫🔍. Can you decipher the emojis to identify the pathogen? microbe-id.firstline.org
Educational content created by @idstewardship.bsky.social @tbrar7.bsky.social and Shaqil Peermohamed, MD #IDSky
First up: Microbe-ID 🧫🔍. Can you decipher the emojis to identify the pathogen? microbe-id.firstline.org
Educational content created by @idstewardship.bsky.social @tbrar7.bsky.social and Shaqil Peermohamed, MD #IDSky
Unwelcome discovery: Sudden oak death pathogen found in Minnesota for first time
Source: KSTP 5 Eyewitness News Minneapolis-St. Paul MN
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Source: KSTP 5 Eyewitness News Minneapolis-St. Paul MN
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Unwelcome discovery: Sudden oak death pathogen found in Minnesota for first time - NewsBreak
Sudden oak death pathogen found in Minnesota nursery. U of M and MDA continuing to monitor to prevent spread.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Unwelcome discovery: Sudden oak death pathogen found in Minnesota for first time
Source: KSTP 5 Eyewitness News Minneapolis-St. Paul MN
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Source: KSTP 5 Eyewitness News Minneapolis-St. Paul MN
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In their @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social editorial, Metersky & Waterer say it all.
This is why funding & advocacy priorities for pneumonia must shift to human biology-based science. Sign our open letter to put the change into action: www.scienceadvancement.org/open-letter-...
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This is why funding & advocacy priorities for pneumonia must shift to human biology-based science. Sign our open letter to put the change into action: www.scienceadvancement.org/open-letter-...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
In their @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social editorial, Metersky & Waterer say it all.
This is why funding & advocacy priorities for pneumonia must shift to human biology-based science. Sign our open letter to put the change into action: www.scienceadvancement.org/open-letter-...
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This is why funding & advocacy priorities for pneumonia must shift to human biology-based science. Sign our open letter to put the change into action: www.scienceadvancement.org/open-letter-...
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🐁 Species-specific differences. Comparative studies show poor correlation between mouse and human immune responses to infection and inflammation. Animals kept in laboratories are mostly pathogen-free, and even wild mice have vastly different immune baselines than those bred for experiments.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
🐁 Species-specific differences. Comparative studies show poor correlation between mouse and human immune responses to infection and inflammation. Animals kept in laboratories are mostly pathogen-free, and even wild mice have vastly different immune baselines than those bred for experiments.
Oxford Nanopore's long-read sequencing is improving pathogen research! Compared to traditional short reads, long reads provide more complete genome assemblies with fewer errors. By tweaking analysis methods, researchers found that long-read data can now be as accurate as short reads for identifyi...
A comparison of short- and long-read whole-genome sequencing for microbial pathogen epidemiology.
Published in mSystems
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Oxford Nanopore's long-read sequencing is improving pathogen research! Compared to traditional short reads, long reads provide more complete genome assemblies with fewer errors. By tweaking analysis methods, researchers found that long-read data can now be as accurate as short reads for identifyi...
If you are a person with influence over venue operations and /or pathogen safety policy and you have actively enabled the individualist approach to these areas over the last few years, please know you have blood on your hands.
I am not interested in politely requesting mask requirements be reinstated. that won't work. I am interested in aggressively pressuring people with power to act like civil human beings until the institutions follow
these are not problems you can solve with likeabllity. these are power problems
these are not problems you can solve with likeabllity. these are power problems
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
If you are a person with influence over venue operations and /or pathogen safety policy and you have actively enabled the individualist approach to these areas over the last few years, please know you have blood on your hands.
Bobby Brainworm is pretty much a disease vector: any living agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen. 🦠
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Bobby Brainworm is pretty much a disease vector: any living agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen. 🦠
Epstein-Barr virus, the common pathogen behind mononucleosis/mono/glandular fever/kissing disease, seems to prime some people to develop the autoimmune condition systemic lupus erythematosus 🧪 #health #mono
www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
Strongest evidence yet that the Epstein-Barr virus causes lupus
Lupus has been linked to the Epstein-Barr virus – which causes glandular fever, or mono – before, but we now have evidence of how it can bring about the autoimmune condition
www.newscientist.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Epstein-Barr virus, the common pathogen behind mononucleosis/mono/glandular fever/kissing disease, seems to prime some people to develop the autoimmune condition systemic lupus erythematosus 🧪 #health #mono
www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
Graduate students in Virginia Tech’s "Advanced Forest Ecology" course are turning 19th-century land survey records into modern data — mapping where American elms once thrived before Dutch elm disease (a devastating #invasive fungal pathogen) reshaped the landscape.
🔗 news.vt.edu/articles/202...
🔗 news.vt.edu/articles/202...
Graduate students uncover stories hidden in the forests of the past
Armed with maps and 19th century handwriting, students are building a picture of elm before disease and development reshaped the landscape.
news.vt.edu
November 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Graduate students in Virginia Tech’s "Advanced Forest Ecology" course are turning 19th-century land survey records into modern data — mapping where American elms once thrived before Dutch elm disease (a devastating #invasive fungal pathogen) reshaped the landscape.
🔗 news.vt.edu/articles/202...
🔗 news.vt.edu/articles/202...
Metagenomic sequencing has been gaining traction, with The President’s FY 2026 Budget proposing a $52M allocation to CDC for Biothreat Radar, a new pathogen detection system.
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Metagenomic sequencing has been gaining traction, with The President’s FY 2026 Budget proposing a $52M allocation to CDC for Biothreat Radar, a new pathogen detection system.
Archaeologists once found a perfectly preserved Viking turd the size of an iPhone. It turned out to be one of the most informative fossils ever discovered. We learn a ton from fossilized feces, including things about diet, environment, and pathogen load.
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The Ghosts of Meals Past: What We’ve Learned from Fossilized Poop
When construction first broke ground for the Lloyds Bank building in York in 1972, within a moist layer of peat was something each of the crew would have seen countless times before, although never on...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Archaeologists once found a perfectly preserved Viking turd the size of an iPhone. It turned out to be one of the most informative fossils ever discovered. We learn a ton from fossilized feces, including things about diet, environment, and pathogen load.
open.substack.com/pub/theedgeo...
open.substack.com/pub/theedgeo...
I'm really looking forward to this npj Viruses collection on plant viruses! Send us your wonderful virus manuscripts, whether on an obscure pathogen of wild plants or an economically important disease of cash crops, we want it all. #plant #virus
www.nature.com/collections/...
www.nature.com/collections/...
Plant viruses
Plant viruses are economically important pathogens causing serious crop losses, yet no effective or durable control measures exist despite growing genomic and ...
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I'm really looking forward to this npj Viruses collection on plant viruses! Send us your wonderful virus manuscripts, whether on an obscure pathogen of wild plants or an economically important disease of cash crops, we want it all. #plant #virus
www.nature.com/collections/...
www.nature.com/collections/...
The fungus demonstrated a 90% growth inhibition capacity against the pathogen in vitro and reduced the incidence of blight in potted plants by 14.8%, outperforming the chemical control. Remarkably, J7 also significantly increased the fresh weight and height of S.
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The fungus demonstrated a 90% growth inhibition capacity against the pathogen in vitro and reduced the incidence of blight in potted plants by 14.8%, outperforming the chemical control. Remarkably, J7 also significantly increased the fresh weight and height of S.
Sudden Oak Death pathogen detected for the first time in Minnesota @forestmycology.bsky.social @nickrajtar.bsky.social twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/...
Sudden oak death pathogen detected for the first time in Minnesota
University of Minnesota researchers detected the pathogen that causes sudden oak death in Minnesota for the first time. Sudden oak death is a tree disease that has devastated forests on the West Coast...
twin-cities.umn.edu
November 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Sudden Oak Death pathogen detected for the first time in Minnesota @forestmycology.bsky.social @nickrajtar.bsky.social twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/...
Multiplex metagenomic sequencing for rapid viral pathogen identification and surveillance in clinical specimens https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41214546/
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Multiplex metagenomic sequencing for rapid viral pathogen identification and surveillance in clinical specimens https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41214546/
Understanding microbiome shifts and their impacts on plant health during pathogen infections (Daniela P T Thomazella, Letícia B Pereira, Paulo J P L Teixeira) #PlantScience @aspbofficial doi.org/10.1093/plph...
Understanding microbiome shifts and their impacts on plant health during pathogen infections
Abstract. Pathogen infections can drastically reshape plant-associated microbiomes, yet the mechanisms underlying these shifts and their consequences for p
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Understanding microbiome shifts and their impacts on plant health during pathogen infections (Daniela P T Thomazella, Letícia B Pereira, Paulo J P L Teixeira) #PlantScience @aspbofficial doi.org/10.1093/plph...
Big congratulations @tobybarilbio.bsky.social!
Please check out and share our final version of the transposon mobilization work in a fungal pathogen - out now in Nature Communications
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Please check out and share our final version of the transposon mobilization work in a fungal pathogen - out now in Nature Communications
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Big congratulations @tobybarilbio.bsky.social!
Please check out and share our final version of the transposon mobilization work in a fungal pathogen - out now in Nature Communications
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Please check out and share our final version of the transposon mobilization work in a fungal pathogen - out now in Nature Communications
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Maybe it's because the caregiver is exposed to the pathogen in smaller amounts from the beginning, giving their body time to learn to fight it? (I'm the caregiver for a long COVID patient who's tested positive for over 3 years. I have not had it for 4+ years. No boosters since the first shot.)
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Maybe it's because the caregiver is exposed to the pathogen in smaller amounts from the beginning, giving their body time to learn to fight it? (I'm the caregiver for a long COVID patient who's tested positive for over 3 years. I have not had it for 4+ years. No boosters since the first shot.)
"even though the genetically modified pigs are raised in pathogen-free facilities and tested before their organs are harvested, viruses or viral genetic matter have slipped through the dragnet on at least two occasions"
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"even though the genetically modified pigs are raised in pathogen-free facilities and tested before their organs are harvested, viruses or viral genetic matter have slipped through the dragnet on at least two occasions"
Some of the time, Covid is the dominant respiratory pathogen. But not as often as it has been since 2020. Influenza is going to be a problem* this year. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
*More of a problem than usual, more of a problem than since 2020. Probably more of a problem than Covid.
*More of a problem than usual, more of a problem than since 2020. Probably more of a problem than Covid.
New flu virus mutation could see ‘worst season in a decade'
Leading flu experts say they will not be surprised if this year's is the worst flu season for a decade.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Some of the time, Covid is the dominant respiratory pathogen. But not as often as it has been since 2020. Influenza is going to be a problem* this year. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
*More of a problem than usual, more of a problem than since 2020. Probably more of a problem than Covid.
*More of a problem than usual, more of a problem than since 2020. Probably more of a problem than Covid.
"Emergency" closure like its a fucking... oh, I don't know... contagious pathogen that turned into a pandemic they ignored?
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"Emergency" closure like its a fucking... oh, I don't know... contagious pathogen that turned into a pandemic they ignored?