#Plant NLRs help combat #pathogens. In the latest #JIPB commentary, Wang et al. discuss expanding functionalities of #immune receptors through simultaneous transfer of sensor and helper NLRs.
🔓 ➡️ https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70020
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RAND report:
When Should We Worry About AI Being Used to Design a Pathogen?
Key takeaways:
In 2025 and the near term, AI is and will likely continue to be an assistive tool rather than an independent driver of biological design.
No fundamental biological limits exist that would prevent AI from eventually having the capability to design pathogens.
As AI models become more capable, the risk landscape is shifting and is expected to expand over the longer term (i.e., after 2027), although experts were very uncertain how rapidly capabilities would evolve.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RBA4087-1.html
#ai #airesearch #rand #bioengineering #bioweapons #pathogens #artificialintelligence
Did prehistoric sheep carry plague? 🐑🦠 A 3rd-millennium BCE Yersinia pestis genome from domesticated sheep links livestock to human infections in prehistory. #MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #plague #pathogens #yersiniapestis #sheep #zoonosis #infection #ancientpathogens
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.07.029
While humans have long used salicylic acid to relieve pain and inflammation, #plants produce it to defend against #pathogens. But how? Yan Li and Jie Luo explore its #biosynthesis from phenylalanine in a new #JIPB commentary!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70016
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Adding these to your #diet is a #preventativehealth measure against #bacterialinfections, as it helps fight to invade #pathogens when you are already infected. And it assists with #boosting good bacteria in the #gut #microbiome and #reducesinflammation in the body. #angstromminerals #healthylifestyle #naturalsupplements
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As climate change warms ocean waters, Vibrio bacteria diseases are spreading northward along many coastlines #pathogens
Ever since they stopped monitoring multiple different #Foodborne #Pathogens a few months ago, I have gotten regularly sick definitely it being food poisoning basically every other week. Refrigerator is totally fine. The items that I purchase are packaged and handled properly. There isn’t a single specific food item that seems to stand out in a pattern. It seems to be multiple things. Some milk was definitely bad in unopened cartons, but that’s the only thing that had some telltale signs.
“ #covid-19 may somehow impair the immune system’s “memory” of past infections, potentially making even healthy people more vulnerable to future #pathogens.” www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Why scientists are rethinking ...
#Drumpf era #CDC has stopped monitoring for several factors it once tracked for foodborne illness outbreaks. As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is ordered to only monitori for two pathogens instead of the previous eight.
Currently only two #pathogens: #salmonella and #Shiga toxin-producing E. coli are being tracked federally, now ignored are #campylobacter, #cyclospora, #listeria, #shigella, #vibrio and #Yersinia.
Why are there so few #pathogens, and what determines their emergence? This #PLOSBiology Perspective argues that #ecological and #evolutionary forces (host availability, geographic exposure and microbial innovation) will shape future human diseases.
https://plos.io/4mUst87
last year's feature on #travelling #pathogens from #plague to #covid19 is now in the #OpenArchives. #FreeAccess for all. https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/08/travelling-pathogens.html #science #ecology #publicHealth #travel #history
#Animal #diseases leapt to #humans when we started keeping #livestock
When #huntergatherers began living close to animals, the #pathogens that cause the #plague and #leprosy got closer too.
The #genomic study identified 5,486 #DNA sequences from #bacteria, #viruses and #parasites in blood remnants from bones and teeth spanning 37,000 years. #Zoonotic pathogens were detected only in remains 6,500 years old or younger.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02165-x
How #RFKJr #mRNA crackdown affects #vaccine making and future #pandemics. The #Trump administration is terminating #biodefense #research funding for mRNA projects, raising concerns about the nation’s ability to fight future #pandemics. #publichealth #medicine #healthcare #science #pathogens #flu #birdflu #HHS #taxpayers #RNA #biology #variants https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08/06/rfk-jr-mrna-vaccine-criticism/
Live-animal markets across #SoutheastAsia continue operating as natural laboratories for deadly #pathogens despite warnings from #publichealth experts about their role in #disease transmission, according to research published in Nature.
Inside the thriving wild-animal markets that could start the next #pandemic
Live-animal markets are a natural laboratory for viruses to evolve and spark deadly outbreaks, yet scientists lack support to study the risks they pose.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01690-z
Transcription factor bHLH25 is a #crop superhero!
🛡️Oxidized, it boosts #lignin production to strengthen #plant #cell walls against #pathogens.
⚔️Non-oxidized, it activates #phytoalexins to inhibit pathogen growth.
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https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13878
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… and #diets rich in animal products, like #milk & #meat, could facilitat the spreading of such #pathogens from animals: doi.org/10.1038/d415... #plantbased #health
Animal diseases leapt to human...
Ancient DNA reveals farming led to more human diseases
"Humans' close cohabitation with domesticated animals—and large-scale migrations of pastoralists from the Pontic Steppe—played a decisive role in the spread of these diseases...We've long suspected that the transition to farming and animal husbandry opened the door to a new era of disease—now DNA shows us that it happened at least 6,500 years ago. These infections didn't just cause illness—they may have contributed to population collapse, migration, and genetic adaptation."
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https://phys.org/news/2025-07-large-scale-dna-years-disease.html
"Today, zoonoses account for more than 60% of newly emerging infectious diseases."
Martin Sikora, The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia, Nature (2025).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09192-8
#pastoralism #farming #diseases #zoonosis #pathogens #livestock #cattle #domestication #civilisation #animal #husbandry #SettlerSociety #meat #pandemics #IndigenousPeoples
Zinc plays a central role in the #immunesystem, & #zinc #deficient people experience increased #susceptibility to a variety of #pathogens. It is clear that zinc affects multiple aspects of the #immune system, from the barrier of the #skin to #generegulation within #lymphocytes. Zinc is crucial for normal #development & #function of cells mediating nonspecific #immunity such as #neutrophils and #naturalkillercells.
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Extreme Weather Boosts Pathogens and Disease Spread, Study Finds https://www.ecowatch.com/extreme-weather-pathogens-disease-spread.html
#Pathogens like M. oryzae and the rice stripe #virus severely impact #crop yields, but #RNAi-based #rice #disease management may turn the tide in this battle. Here, Chen et al. explore the potential of sprayable sRNA and dsRNA molecules.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13896
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