{
  "id": 8076681,
  "title": "Bacterial-derived cyclic lipopeptides suppress dauer arrest in C. elegans",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/bacterial-derived-cyclic-lipopeptides-suppress-dauer-arrest-in-c",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-17T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.14.751545v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Secondary bacterial metabolites can regulate animal physiology, but the specific bacterial genes and molecules responsible for regulating, synthesizing, and transporting these molecules and the mechanisms by which they impact animal physiology often remain unclear. Here, we used Caenorhabditis elegans dauer formation as a gross morphological readout to identify bacterial mechanisms that promote…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}