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Nature Microbiology publishes the latest research and commentary in all areas of microbiology.

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Read our November editorial:

The complex path towards herpesvirus vaccines

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Dive into our November issue featuring:

🪆nested archaeal symbioses
🌱microbiota driven drought responses in plants
🏗️ BAM complex in Bacteroidota
💨microbial fermentative growth in the gut
🍸hospital-specific phage therapy cocktail

and much more..!

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November 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Meet our virology editor Julie Tai-Schmiedel at the Keystone meeting “Predicting and Responding to Emerging Viral Infections” next week!

@julietai.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Some keen Observations in Our October issue!

🦠 Cancer microbiome
🌊 Marine microbes in warming oceans
🌐 broad-range phages
🧬 genetically minimised Salmonella
🔧 Viral infection mechanisms
🧪 Oxaloacetate antiviral defence

and more, here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
October 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Savour the fine flavour of our September issue, featuring...

〰️Bacterial prions in phage defence
💊Antibiotics from archaea
🔺Spike complexes in Sabiá, Junin and Machupo viruses
🛡️Aggresomes and mRNA protection
🤝A call for early-career teams

...and more, here 👇
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September 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Get inspired to scale the challenges with our August issue!

Read about:

🦟Fighting malaria
🕹️Remote controlled probiotics
🍄Antifungal resistance
💉mRNA vaccines against bacteria
⚕️Yellow fever vaccine
🫧Archaeal ribosomes
🦠giardia-host interactions

and more.
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#MicroSky
August 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Beat the heat with the polar breeze from our July issue!

Read about:

⏱️Slow-growing aeonophiles
🦠Persistence in bacteria
♻️gut bacteria and forever chemicals
🌀Flagellar motors
🧬plasmodium genome
💉evasive Herpes virus
👩‍🔬 Reviewer gender diversity
and more

#MicroSky

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July 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Hang in there, our June issue has just flown in! Read about…

🦇Virus evolution in bats
👶Probiotics for neonates
🧠Typhoid toxin targeting the brain
🛡️Phage defense systems in V. cholerae
🍔An anti-obesogenic gut bacterium

…and more👇
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June 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Phollow" the link to our May issue to read about...

💥lysing bacterial pathogens
⛽microbial alkane oxidation
🌱importance of seed-borne bacteria
🙅‍♀️protective antibodies for norovirus
🚰E. coli in urban drinking water

...and more!👇
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May 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is our April issue, oh yeah...

🐦H5N1 antiviral outcomes
💊Abx against N. gonorrhoeae
🌱P. syringae plant infection
🦟Circadian rhythms in malaria

...and more 👇
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April 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Marching into spring with our March issue!

💡Considering microbes in microplastic research
🌍 Climate change and harmful microbes
🧬 CRISPRi-ART for functional genomics
🦀 Gut microbiota and cancer therapy response

and much more!

#MicroSky

Read here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
March 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Our February issue has invaded! Featuring...

🍬microbial GLP-1 & sugar preferences
☠️kill switches for M. tuberculosis
🦇a cache of bat RNA viral genomes
🏞️design & release of engineered bacteria

...and more, here👇
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February 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Check out our new EDITORIAL:

Use microbes to tackle food insecurity

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Our first issue of 2025 has gone live, featuring...

🥗microbial roles in diet and food insecurity
🛶freshwater microbial dynamics
📈SARS-CoV-2 spike evolution
🚨bacterial danger signals
🥔microbiomes forecasting spud vigor

...and more. Check it out here 👇
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
January 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Our final issue of 2024 is out now!

☕Coffee habits shape your gut microbiome
❄️Tracking avian influenza in Antarctica
⚖️Fitness trade-offs in pathogens
🛡️Phage-encoded kinase defense
and much more..!

www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
December 2, 2024 at 10:58 AM