Microbiota Vault Initiative preserves crucial microbes from humans, animals, and environments to prevent future health crises ...

Washington State University researchers have discovered how the bacteria that cause anaplasmosis and Lyme disease hijack ...

As Earth enters an age of rapid ecological change, a quiet revolution is taking place in freezers chilled to -80°C.

Explore how the microbiome could revolutionize athletic performance and aging. Dr. Sabine Hazan discusses fecal transplants and gut health as powerful tools for recovery, cognition, and longevity.

Citrus trees showing natural tolerance to citrus greening disease host bacteria that produce novel antimicrobials that can be used to fight off the disease, our recent study shows. We found the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Citrus trees showing natural tolerance to citrus greening disease host bacteria that produce novel antimicrobials that can be used to fight off the disease, our recent study ...

These trees expressed phloem-targeted antimicrobials, specifically human lysozyme and β-defensin-2, to target the disease-causing bacteria; The genetic modifications did not significantly alter the ...

Related: 70,000 never-before-seen viruses found in the human gut In a report published Jan. 21 to the preprint database bioRxiv, the team introduced "Obelisks," a newly named class of viroid they ...

“By inserting sequences into a whole-genome phylogeny, we show that 16S rRNA and shotgun metagenomic data generated from the same samples agree in principal coordinates space, taxonomy and ...

The Tangled Tree, explains how evolution isn't exactly as Darwin understood it. About 8 percent of the human genome is made up of viral DNA that we acquired through infections over time.

Genetically, the numbers are even more dramatic. The human genome consists of roughly 20,000 genes; the human microbiome expresses 2 to 20 million genes. Even within what is usually considered the ...

The human gut microbiome — bacteria and other microorganisms living in our gut that are essential for our survival — are endangered. ... You fall from a tree, you are dead.