A study reveals that common pesticides and industrial chemicals inhibit gut bacteria, highlighting risks to health and the ...

When it comes to cleanliness and hygiene in the kitchen, we often talk about keeping the utensils clean, avoiding damp ...

A new study from Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine has found a surprising way to help detect chronic heart failure—by ...

Recent research has delved deep into the manifold ways in which diet can affect gut health throughout a person's life. Here ...

Plants do more than photosynthesize - some of them make gold. Scientists in Finland found gold particles inside Norway spruce ...

This month Genome Research publishes a special issue highlighting novel advances in computational biology. In collaboration ...

Background Chronic stress is a known risk factor for cancer metastasis. However, the underlying mechanisms, particularly ...

ABSTRACT: Adaptation of microbial communities to anthropogenic stress has often been shown to involve reduction in diversity and in selective enrichment of species capable of survival. The gut ...

16S rRNA sequencing focuses on a component of the small subunit of the ribosome found in all bacteria and archaea. This gene is highly conserved among different species, but also contains ...

Background: Analyzing bacterial microbiomes consistently using next-generation sequencing (NGS) is challenging due to the diversity of synthetic platforms for 16S rRNA genes and their analytical ...