Microbiome
Food poisoning alert: Salmonella strain prevalent in Africa mutates, slowing health response
The Salmonella strains responsible for most food-poisoning cases occurring in developed countries pretty much limit their residence in the human body to the gut...But a ...
‘Alphabet of life’ expanded by 2 synthetic letters, may help make organisms ‘Earth has never seen’
Until very recently, life on Earth was dictated by strings of just four letters: G, A, T, and C...Deciphering nature’s ...
Random acts of kindness may be fueled by microbes
Why do people commonly go out of their way to do something nice for another person...and how could such altruistic ...
Recreating nature: Building medicines and materials from ‘unnatural proteins’
Over the last several years, with a big assist from the genomics and computer revolutions, David Baker, head of the Institute ...
Oil and gas deposits could be located with help of DNA soil analysis
While a lot of sciences are involved in finding oil and gas, biology might not be the first science that ...
Leading plant scientist says he’s skipping Science March on Washington: Here’s why
[Editor's note: Kevin Folta, a molecular biologist and chairman of the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida, offers ...
Step toward synthetic life: Genetic code expanded from four to six letters
[T]he first living organisms to thrive with an expanded genetic code have been made by researchers in work that paves ...
Viruses ‘talk’ with each other to plan attacks on cells
[Israeli scientists have accidentally] discovered for the first time an instance of viruses leaving messages for other viruses. ... Viruses ...
Can probiotics help those suffering with metabolic syndrome, obesity?
In recent years, efforts to manage metabolic syndrome have fallen in with the lucrative, but untested weight loss market. Chief ...
Can microbes be turned into tiny chemical factories?
Machine learning and artificial intelligence are all the rage today in venture capital circles...What happens when machine learning meets biology? ...
5 unsolved mysteries about CRISPR
[Despite knowing a lot about CRISPR, scientists] are still puzzling over some basic questions about the system and how it works ...
How bacteria inspired the birth of CRISPR gene editing
Within a few years, the study of CRISPR had moved beyond fundamental research into a full-fledged gene-editing revolution that enabled ...
Quest for diverse disease treatments leads to our guts
Many are now looking at a symbiotic relationship between the gut microbiome and the immune system, mediated by factors such ...
Advances in CRISPR, gene editing helping ‘clean tech’ get off ground after years of failure
A decade ago, a group of biologists, venture capitalists and computer whizzes...hoped to overturn polluting industries with microorganisms cheerily excreting ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Watch how epigenetic changes cause cancer
Epigenetics Around the Web is a weekly roundup of the latest studies and news in the field of epigenetics presented ...
Smog in Beijing contains bacteria with antibiotic-resistant genes, sparking public fears
A report that Beijing’s already notorious smog contained bacteria with antibiotic-resistant genes spread through the city [in December] like pathogens ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Should theory of evolution expand to include epigenetics?
Epigenetics around the web is a weekly roundup of the latest studies and news in the field of epigenetics. This ...
What you eat influences which genes your gut microbes switch on and off
New research provides further evidence of the important role that gut microbes play in health - by revealing they alter ...
Epigenetics around the web: Epigenetics initiative IHEC releases 41 studies in one day; your office has a microbiome
Epigenetics around the web is a weekly roundup of the latest studies and news in the field of epigenetics. This ...
American Council on Science and Health fact sheet in response to GMO, biotechnology critics
Recently, a concerned group of pro-science scholars contacted American Council on Science and Health because they wanted to counter the ...
Designer bacteria: Genetically modified pills are a radical new way to treat rare stomach ailments
Designer bacteria are organisms that have been genetically modified to include a new function to make it do something it ...
Ebola evolved during latest outbreak to become deadlier to humans
What made the recent Ebola outbreak in west Africa so virulent? The virus that seeped across borders and killed more ...
Biocement from genetically modified bacteria could react to changes in environment
A team of scientists from Newcastle and Northumbria universities, led by architecture academic Dr Martyn Dade-Robertson, are investigating how they ...
Breast microbiome different in women with cancer
Much of the news on this topic has been about the colony of bacteria deep in your gut; scientists believe that the ...
Paleovirology explores evolutionary history of HIV in hopes of finding cure
The Malayan flying lemur is a small brown animal with buggy eyes...[A] group of Czech scientists discovered another trait of this mammal: ...
Looking back on gene editing’s thirty years of development
In the mid-1980s, Oliver Smithies, then at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Mario Capecchi of the University of Utah independently ...
How epigenetics, our gut microbiome and the environment interact to change our lives
There appears to be an incredible, largely invisible world, of cellular communication, symbiosis, and chemistry occurring between ‘us’ and the ...
