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Targeted ecological sampling combined with a portable enrichment device rapidly yields a diverse array of bacteriophages against drug-resistant pathogens.

Cell-surface heparan sulfate clusters, not the generally assumed ACE2, mediate SARS-CoV-2 attachment and endocytic entry, fundamentally revising the viral entry paradigm and establishing heparan sulfate as a primary therapeutic target.

Tracking luminescent reporter light intensity is a fast, easy way to quantify population decline at high concentrations and tends to be a better proxy for biomass than for cell number.

Cooperation between individual virions of human cytomegalovirus at infecting cells leads to nonlinear scaling of cell infection probability with virion concentration.

Probiotic communities designed to inhibit a lung pathogen through niche exclusion show promise as a novel method of preventing respiratory infection.

TNF-driven metabolic reprogramming enhances glucose utilization in monocytes through inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α), promoting parasite control and host resistance during Plasmodium infection.

Pathogens can use surface proteins to limit immune responses, and the finding that merozoite surface protein 2 has this property could help in Plasmodium falciparum malaria vaccine development.

Through low levels of extracellular ATP, EPEC induces small, rapid and coordinated Ca²⁺ responses in epithelial cells, a yet unreported pattern, that down-regulate inflammation at the onset of infection.

Antibiotics that inhibit translation cause a burst in reactive oxygen species, and these must be detoxified by factors such as KatG for cells to survive.