Pharmaceutical Waste Is Breeding Superbugs in Rivers and Wastewater Worldwide
A comprehensive review of 167 studies shows that pharmaceutical and clinical effluents are transforming aquatic ecosystems into hotspots where multidrug ...
Tag: metagenomics
Produced Water Gives a Skewed Picture of Life Inside Oil Reservoirs
Paired sampling across four North Sea oil fields shows that produced water, long used as a proxy for reservoir microbiomes, ...
Rainforest Shade Reshapes the Hidden Microbial World Beneath Wild Tea Trees
A field study in a twenty-year-unmanaged wild tea plantation in Hainan, China, shows that natural habitat heterogeneity, from open sites ...
Single FMT dose clears gut-hugging E. coli linked to Crohn’s disease in small pilot trial
An open-label pilot trial found that a single fecal microbiota transplantation cleared adherent-invasive E. coli from the gut lining of ...
Tea Waste Microbiome Cleans Itself as Decomposition Unfolds, Study Finds
Metagenomic tracking of oolong tea waste decomposition reveals a three-phase microbial succession that breaks down lignocellulose and cuts antibiotic resistance ...
Fire strategies of pines shape which fungi break down their needles
A reciprocal litterbag experiment in Taiwan reveals that fire-tolerant and fire-avoiding pine species drive distinct fungal successions during needle decomposition, ...
Microbes Turn Toxic Carbon Monoxide into Valuable Butyrate in Breakthrough Fermentation Study
Wageningen researchers enriched mixed microbial communities that simultaneously consume carbon monoxide and acetate to produce butyrate, with Eubacterium emerging as ...
Peatland Microbes Harbor Nearly 10,000 Hidden Gene Clusters but Switch On Only a Fraction
Metagenomic and transcriptomic analysis of an acidic German fen reveals nearly 10,000 biosynthetic gene clusters, 97 percent of them new ...
Vaginal Microbiome Study of 10,000 Women Reveals Lasting Microbial Scars of Infection
A shotgun metagenomic study of 10,003 American women shows that microbial signatures of recent bacterial vaginosis and urinary tract infection, ...
AI Reads Microbial Genomes to Forecast Life in Earth’s Saltiest Places
Researchers at Nanjing Tech University have developed SuSha, a machine learning tool that predicts microbial salt tolerance directly from genome ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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