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📣 New MicroBites! Iron from red meat protects bacteria against antibiotics 🥩 How different forms of iron affect the efficacy of common antibiotics inside the gut’s microbial community. 🦠 micro-bites.org/2026/01/21/iro…

📣 New MicroBites! Underdog Versus Final Boss: How Vitamin C Helps Antibiotics Work Better 🦠 Vitamin C, an unexpected underdog, helps disrupt bacterial biofilms and restores the effectiveness of antibiotics against drug-resistant infections 💊 micro-bites.org/2026/01/14/und…

Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science Science is full of unseen forces, and women are one of them. 🧫 From decoding microbes to shaping medicine, women in science are transforming how we understand life itself.

📣 New MicroBites! Martian Microbes? The Case of Jezero Crater 🪐 Perseverance finds minerals and organics in Jezero Crater—could these be signs of ancient microbial life on Mars? 🦠 micro-bites.org/2026/01/07/mar…

🎉🦠 Microbites is 5! 🧬✨ Five years of breaking down microbiology, amplifying science communication, and sharing the tiny stories that shape our world. Thank you to our writers and readers for growing with us. Here’s to many more bites of science! micro-bites.org/2026/02/01/mic…

Wetlands aren’t wastelandsthey’re living archives. 🌿 Beneath wet soils, microbes quietly lock away carbon, recycle nutrients, and sustain livelihoods communities have depended on for generations. #Westlands2026 micro-bites.org/2021/06/07/a-l…

Tiny Wires, Big Power Did you know some bacteria can make electricity? ⚡ Geobacter microbes form protein “nanowires” to move electrons outside their cells, turning methane into power. Clean energy might just be microscopic! #CleanEnergyDay micro-bites.org/2023/05/15/wir…

📣 New MicroBites! Novel Antibiotics and Where to Find Them 💊 Preventing our past from becoming our future might require an understudied domain of life – and a computer! 💻 🦠 micro-bites.org/2025/12/26/nov…

📣 New MicroBites! Can Leishmania Stand the Heat? 🥵 How a heat-based therapeutic can be an alternative in the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis. 🦠 micro-bites.org/2025/12/22/can…

📣 New MicroBites! How Bile Acids Neutralize a Deadly Gut Toxin ⚔️ Synthetic bile acids lock the lethal toxin produced by C. difficile into a harmless state, protecting the gut from damage. 🦠 micro-bites.org/2025/12/15/how…

📣 New MicroBites! Fungi in Space 🍄 🌌 How microgravity can help fungi’s pathogenicity ✨ micro-bites.org/2025/12/11/fun…

📣 New MicroBites! Security hacked: How phages slip past bacterial defenses 🦠 Phages rely on diverse anti-defense proteins to neutralize bacterial defense systems and successfully infect their host. 👇 micro-bites.org/2025/12/08/sec…

🔬✨ Happy New Year from MicroBites! Here’s to a 2026 full of curiosity, discoveries, and tiny microbes making a big impact. Let’s keep exploring the microscopic world; one bite at a time! 🦠🎉 micro-bites.org

📣 New MicroBites! Global warming is a summer vacation for the dengue virus ☀️ The dengue virus enjoys warm weather 🦠 micro-bites.org/2025/11/03/glo…

📣 New MicroBites! Antibiotic Resistance Potential of ESKAPE Pathogens 💊 Multidrug-resistant infections are a growing global threat, driven by diverse bacterial resistance mechanisms, complicating efforts to develop effective antibiotics. 🦠 micro-bites.org/2025/11/24/ant…

📣 New MicroBites! Is the Microbiome Overrated? 🦠 A medical humanities perspective on the way researchers talk about the microbiome. 👇 micro-bites.org/2025/11/19/is-…

From Therapy to Threat: Antibiotics and the Resistome Antibiotics revolutionized medicine — but overuse turned them into a global threat. 🌍💊 Discover how resistance genes evolve and spread across ecosystems in our latest piece. 🔗 micro-bites.org/2025/08/15/fro… #WAAW2025 #OneHealth

Phage Disco: The Comeback of Phage Discovery When antibiotics fail, bacteriophages step back into the spotlight! 🎶🔬 Dive into the “phage disco” — where viruses that kill bacteria might help us fight AMR. 🔗 micro-bites.org/2025/08/02/pha… #WAAW2025 #PhageTherapy #AMR

Exploiting Fitness Costs to Reimagine the AMR Fight Can evolution help us outsmart resistance? 🧠💥 Learn how researchers turn bacteria’s own fitness trade-offs into an advantage in the battle against AMR. 🔗 micro-bites.org/2025/05/28/rei… #WAAW2025 #Microbiology #AMRResearch

Teamwork in Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance No one beats AMR alone. Collaboration between clinicians, farmers, policymakers & scientists is key to protect our present and secure our future. 🌍💪 🔗 micro-bites.org/2025/04/04/tea… #WAAW2025 #OneHealth #ActNow