Several promising strategies based on combining or cycling different antibiotics have been
proposed to increase efficacy and counteract resistance evolution, but we still lack a deep …

The transfer of nutrients between cells, or cross-feeding, is a ubiquitous feature of microbial
communities with emergent properties that influence our health and orchestrate global …

Highlights•Microbial interactions are increasingly being studied in community
contexts.•Common mechanisms of interaction are found across microbiomes.•Combining …

Colistin is one of the last-resort antibiotics in treating infections caused by multidrug-resistant
(MDR) pathogens. Unfortunately, the emergence of colistin-resistant gram-negative strains …

Advances in technology and software have radically expanded the scope of metabolomics
studies and allow us to monitor a broad transect of central carbon metabolism in routine …

Mutually beneficial interspecific interactions are abundant throughout the natural world,
including between microbes. Mutualisms between microbes are critical for everything from …

Almost every ecosystem on this planet is teeming with microbial communities made of
diverse bacterial species. At a reductionist view, many of these bacteria form pairwise …

Positive interactions, including intraspecies cooperation and interspecies mutualisms, play
crucial roles in shaping the structure and function of many ecosystems, ranging from plant …

Populations facing lethal environmental change can avoid extinction by undergoing rapid
genetic adaptation, a phenomenon termed evolutionary rescue. While this phenomenon has …

Medicinal dyes have been used for centuries to treat ailments, however, research into their
use as an antimicrobial has been lacking in recent years and most clinical work predates to …