Correction to: Nature Microbiology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-021-00946-4, published online 29 July 2021.

In the version of this article initially published, the surname of the first author of the article that was the subject of the News and Views was cited incorrectly as Wong throughout. The first author’s surname is Wang. The error has been corrected in all versions of the article.