A recent study shows that bacteria living inside colorectal tumors form distinct ecosystems that are closely linked to how ...

Mapping the genomes of the bacteria responsible for yaws, a debilitating childhood disease, has uncovered new insights into ...

The direct recovery of microbial genomes from complex environments is now routine. Going from environmental genomes to laboratory experiments is rare, but the tide is turning. A. Murat Eren is at the ...

Human bodies are teeming with trillions of microbial cells that comprise the microbiome, many of them bacteria. Although they may be small, some of these bacteria maintain health, but others promote ...

A groundbreaking study led by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology revealed critical new ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Laboratory, have published a study in Science Advances that ...

Researchers have now developed a new single-cell genome technique to understand how bacteria interact and exchange genetic material, including antibiotic resistance genes at the individual cell level.

A new technique will make it much easier for researchers to discover the traits or activities encoded by genes of unknown function in microbes, a key step toward understanding the roles and impact of ...

Massive endeavor including Hopkins researchers and students aims to understand the planet's most biodiverse habitats ...

- Proceeds to fund expansion of leading-edge, interdisciplinary drug discovery platform and advance a preclinical pipeline initially focused on oncology and infectious diseases - Funding led by ...