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📢 New MicroBites! The Hidden World in Our Fermented Food 🥘 How metagenomics is finding microbes we never knew existed. 🦠 micro-bites.org/2026/09/28/t…

Research shows that microbes introduced with solid foods can influence intestinal stem cells and leave lasting changes that strengthen immune protection. This #WorldFoodDay, innovation helps us understand how food shapes health. 🌍🔬 micro-bites.org/2026/06/22/i…

📢 New MicroBites! Can Gut Bacteria Detect When We’re Stressed? 🦠 Researchers reprogram probiotic bacteria to sense and respond to our stress hormones. 😟 micro-bites.org/2026/09/21/c…

📢 New MicroBites! Root-microbes enhances plant salt stress tolerance 🫚 Pseudomonas improves salt stress tolerance in soybean through lignin biosynthesis 🦠 micro-bites.org/2026/09/14/r…

📢 New MicroBites! The Hidden Battle of Chronic Wounds 🏰 How bacterial biofilms transform chronic wounds into persistent battlegrounds, and why breaking them is key to healing. 🦠 micro-bites.org/2026/09/07/t…

🚀During #WorldSpaceWeek, explore a microbial “space race” where phages and bacteria evolved under microgravity. Space-selected phage mutations even showed promise against bacteria resistant to infection. 🦠🌍 micro-bites.org/2026/04/20/s…

Science has no borders and neither should access to it. 🌍🔬 On #InternationalTranslationDay, we celebrate our translation volunteers who connect people and knowledge. MicroBites shares accessible science in multiple languages. 🗣️✨ micro-bites.org/

Today is #FoodLossAndWasteDay What if food waste could become food again? 🍽️ Scientists are exploring how Neurospora intermedia can transform discarded food into nutritious, novel cuisine through fermentation. 🦠 micro-bites.org/2025/01/31/w…

📢 New MicroBItes! Too hot to handle? Climate change makes antibiotic resistance rise underground 🥵 As global temperatures rise, antibiotic resistance is quietly growing beneath our feet. 🦠 micro-bites.org/2026/08/24/t…

From policy to practice, protecting our oceans requires action and innovation. 🌊 Research explores how microbes could help tackle plastic pollution, turning scientific discovery into practical solutions for a cleaner, healthier ocean #WorldMaritimeDay micro-bites.org/2023/07/24/b…

📢 New MicroBites! Your Gut, Hormones, and Brain – How Sex Changes the Conversation 🧠 Researchers are learning that the microbes in your stomach interact with your brain, hormones, and immune system in addition to… 🦠 micro-bites.org/2026/08/17/y…

🦠🌍 From shaping ecosystems and driving nutrient cycles to influencing human health, food and climate, microorganisms are everywhere! This #InternationalMicroorganismDay, let’s celebrate the unseen world that keeps our planet alive. 🔬micro-bites.org/

📢 New MicroBites! Yin and Yang- The Gut Microbiome and Cancer ☯️ How gut microbes influence cancer development by either stifling or accelerating it through direct contact or indirect signaling. 🦠 micro-bites.org/2026/08/10/y…

📢 New MicroBites!} Gut Microbes: Alzheimer’s Silent Accomplice 🧠 How gut microbes fuel brain inflammation in Alzheimer’s and how fixing gut health might help 🦠 micro-bites.org/2026/07/27/g…

📢 New MicroBites! Looking Beyond Lactobacillus 🦠 A new computational approach rethinks how probiotics are discovered, shifting the search to microbes selected for the metabolic functions. 👇️ micro-bites.org/2026/07/20/l…

New MicroBites! Ocular bacteria : A New Vision for Corneal Wound Healing 👁️ Eye-colonizing microbe engineered to deliver IL-10 to enhance corneal tissue repair. 🦠 micro-bites.org/2026/07/13/o…

Today is International Day of Clean Air 🩵 Clean air is more than what we breathe, it may shape the microbes living within us Research shows exposure to pollutants like ozone and carbon black can alter lung and gut microbiomes and trigger inflammation micro-bites.org/2023/11/22/b…

📢 New MicroBites! Biosurfactants to the Rescue! 🦠 Systematic analysis indicates that biosurfactants produced by isolated bacteria from the Nigerian coastal ecosystem can degrade crude oil hydrocarbons. 🌊 micro-bites.org/2026/07/06/b…

📢 New MicroBites! Introduction to food leaves a lasting immune imprint 🍲 The move from milk to solid food doesn’t go unnoticed: taste, microbiota, and, strikingly, immune responses shift. 🦠 micro-bites.org/2026/06/22/i…

This #WorldBreastfeedingWeek, we celebrate more than nutrition 🤱🦠 Research shows mothers help shape their babies’ microbiomes through birth, breastfeeding, and close contact, laying foundations for lifelong health. #WBW2026 micro-bites.org/2023/04/10/t…