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    Quantification of sporozoite expelling by Anopheles mosquitoes infected with laboratory and naturally circulating P. falciparum gametocytes

    Chiara Andolina, Wouter Graumans ... Teun Bousema
    The number of sporozoites expelled by mosquitoes that are infected with lab-cultured or naturally circulating Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes is heterogeneous and associated with the sporozoite load in their salivary glands.
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    Targeting host deoxycytidine kinase mitigates Staphylococcus aureus abscess formation

    Volker Winstel, Evan R Abt ... Caius G Radu
    Host-directed therapy neutralizes a refined immuno-evasive maneuver of pathogenic staphylococci.
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    The Toxoplasma monocarboxylate transporters are involved in the metabolism within the apicoplast and are linked to parasite survival

    Hui Dong, Jiong Yang ... Shaojun Long
    Combined cutting-edge technologies discovered a pair of carboxylate transporters that appears evolutionarily different among novel transporters and that is essential for parasite physiology.
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    Small RNAs from mitochondrial genome recombination sites are incorporated into T. gondii mitoribosomes

    Sabrina Tetzlaff, Arne Hillebrand ... Christian Schmitz-Linneweber
    Sequences at mitochondrial genome recombination sites are dually used as mRNAs and as rRNAs in actively translating mitoribosomes of T. gondii.
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    Gut microbiota-derived gamma-aminobutyric acid from metformin treatment reduces hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury through inhibiting ferroptosis

    Fangyan Wang, Xiujie Liu ... Wantie Wang
    Gut microbiota-derived gamma-aminobutyric acid is identified as a key metabolite that metformin protect from hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury.
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    Un1Cas12f1 and Cas9 gene drive in HSV1: viruses that ‘infect’ viruses

    Qiaorui Yao, Zhuangjie Lin ... Hongsheng Dai
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    Identification of fallopian tube microbiota and its association with ovarian cancer

    Bo Yu, Congzhou Liu ... David N Fredricks
    A prospective study of intraoperative swab collections from 187 patients identified a putative fallopian tube microbiota and a clear shift in ovarian cancer patients compared to non-cancer patients.
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    Stress Adaptation: Adapting to ever-changing conditions

    Serge Pelet
    Experiments involving periodic stimuli shed light on the interplay between hyper-osmotic stress and glucose starvation in yeast cells.
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    Host and viral determinants of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the Syrian hamster

    Julia R Port, Dylan H Morris ... Vincent J Munster
    An experimental animal model provides further insights into the host and viral mechanisms underlying airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2.