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Sequencing of viral genomes could be useful for infection prevention and control within hospitals, but did not lead to a reduction in the rate of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections over winter 2020/2021 in a large multicentre UK study.

The combination of mosquito transgenesis with paratransgenesis provides maximum parasite-blocking activity and has high potential for fighting malaria.

As long suspected, poxviruses capture host genes through a reverse-transcription process now shown to be mediated by retrotransposons.

Active selfish genetic elements in infected cells aid virus adaptation by catalyzing the transfer of host genes to virus genomes.

A new experimental system of horizontal gene transfer demonstrates that host retrotransposons facilitate the transfer of host genes into poxviruses.

A horizontally shared type VI secretion system affects the interaction between vibrios and eukaryotic hosts.

The repair of oxidatively damaged proteins by the newly discovered activity in YjbI is important for the adaptation of Bacillus subtilis to oxidative environments.

Toll signaling modulates hemocyte differentiation into the megacyte lineage and their recruitment to the midgut greatly enhances mosquito immunity against Plasmodium.

Combined analyses of publicly available population-level variant data and detailed individual-level clinical data can be used to quantify the clinical impact of new SARS-CoV-2 variants in different settings.

The central immune modulator interferon-gamma downregulates the proto-oncogene c-Myc to shut down host cell metabolism and interfere with infection of epithelial cells by obligate intracellular pathogenic Chlamydia trachomatis.