S. Salzberg

The paper re-analyzes a cancer microbiome study and identifies two major data and methodological errors that invalidate its findings and those of subsequent studies.

This study shows that Late Cretaceous dinosaur bones host a living microbiome, distinct from surrounding sediment, challenging assumptions about fossil preservation and original organic material.

The paper reports the first draft genome sequence of Lomentospora prolificans, assembled using Illumina and Oxford Nanopore reads, resulting in a highly contiguous genome with 8,656 protein-coding genes.