The human gut microbiome is home to trillions of different microbes, many of which are crucial to our health. For example, some microbes help us digest food, and produce bioactive compounds that can ...
Scientists in Tokyo have uncovered “Inocles,” massive strands of extrachromosomal DNA hidden inside bacteria in human mouths. These giants, overlooked by traditional sequencing, could explain how oral ...
Bacteria are continuously evolving and becoming increasingly resistant to life-saving medicines. Understanding how ...
Memory is foundational to our human experience. By tracking and storing our experiences, it helps us navigate the world and ...
Gut bacteria evolve rapidly in response to different diets, UCLA evolutionary biologists report in a new study. The researchers found that gene variants that help microbes digest starches found in ...
Antimicrobial resistance occurs when bacteria or other types of microbes adapt to overcome treatments designed to eliminate them. The evolution of microbes makes it harder to treat infections and ...
In a new study published in Cell, scientists in the Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg reveal that microbes living in similar habitats are more alike than those simply inhabiting the same geographical ...
On a sweltering morning last July, Vernon Spear, a burly eighty-five-year-old with thinning gray hair, went to check a chicken-wire crab trap that was hanging from a dock in Cambridge, Maryland. Spear ...