Strains — not species — of gut microbes hold key to health and disease
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—December 23, 2021—Every day, the billions of bacteria that inhabit your digestive system change; the food you eat, ...
Tag: microbes
The impact of drugs on gut microbes is greater than we thought
We are one of the most medicated generations of humans to live on our planet. Cardiometabolic diseases like type 2 ...
Leveraging machine learning to rapidly discover novel beneficial microbes
When you think about agriculture, what comes to mind? Tractors? Fields of corn? Big red barns? Often we don’t think ...
Discovery of a new kinetic factor that governs the carbon metabolism evolution of ancient microbes
OverviewCredit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Overview Tomonari Sumi, Associate Professor of Research Institute for Interdisciplinary ...
Immune cells in the brain play key role in relationship between gut microbes and beta-amyloid
New research from the University of Chicago points to microglia, key immune cells in the brain, as a key mediator ...
Microbes can provide sustainable hydrocarbons for the petrochemical industry
If the petrochemical industry is ever to wean itself off oil and gas, it has to find sustainably-sourced chemicals that ...
How sugar-loving microbes could help power future cars
BUFFALO, N.Y. — It sounds like modern-day alchemy: Transforming sugar into hydrocarbons found in gasoline.Credit: Douglas Levere / University at ...
How the secret world of soil microbes helps keep carbon in the ground
AMHERST, Mass. – The largest terrestrial carbon sink on earth is the planet’s soil. One of the fears that many ...
Marine microbes more effective reducing methane than expected
A new study from Svalbard gas hydrate mounds shows that microbes are able to consume more methane from marine sediments ...
A life less obvious: Study sheds light on the evolution of underground microbes
Deep, dark fractures reaching far down into the oldest rocks on Earth may seem about as hospitable to life as ...
Researchers engineer hardier microbes to improve bioproduction of fuels, chemicals
AMES, Iowa – Busy, productive microbes use enzymes to break down leaves, stalks and other biomass and then convert that ...
The microbial afterlife: team wins $15M from DOE to study how microbes’ traits are linked to carbon storage
The future of the Earth’s climate depends on how much carbon we can keep out of the atmosphere, and how ...
Friend or foe? Researchers investigate the mysterious microbes living inside corals
In a Pearls article publishing September 16th in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens, Patrick Keeling and colleagues at the University ...
Synthetic biology enables microbes to build muscle
No animals were harmed in the production of the synthetic muscle fibers, which are tougher than Kevlar Credit: Washington University ...
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Spotted lanternfly spreads by hitching a ride with humans
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Small but mighty: new superconducting amplifiers deliver high performance at lower power consumption
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Healthy men who have vaginal sex have a distinct urethral microbiome
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Cyprus’s copper deposits created one of the most important trade hubs in the Bronze Age
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The ACMG Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine presents four Next Generation Fellowship Awards at the 2023 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting
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Researchers highlight nucleolar DNA damage response in fight against cancer