Study: Quantifying the intra- and inter-species community interactions in microbiomes by dynamic covariance mapping. Image credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock.com A study published in Nature ...
The human microbiome, which encompasses communities of microorganisms (microbiota) present at defined niches across the human body and their ‘theatre of activity’ 1, represents one of the most ...
The human gut microbiome is composed of a diverse and dynamic population of microbial species which play key roles in modulating host health and physiology. While individual microbial species have ...
The Million Microbiome of Humans Project was officially launched in 2019. Scientists from 21 institutions and more than 10 participating nations are cooperating to sequence and analyze one million ...
About a decade ago, when microbiologist Sarah Lebeer set up her lab at the University of Antwerp, she chose to focus on an aspect of the microbiome that was surprisingly understudied. “We don’t ...
In the mid-1700s, Denmark tried to capture its natural world in ink and copper. Artists and scholars spent more than a century crafting Flora Danica, a massive catalog of plants meant to guide ...
Scientists at the University of Geneva have created the first detailed catalogue of gut bacteria at the subspecies level, unlocking powerful new ways to detect colorectal cancer. By applying machine ...
Food insecurity may leave a measurable biological signature in the gut microbiome of children, according to new research ...
A new study shows that food insecurity may leave a measurable impact on the gut microbiome of children. Children in food-insecure households had different gut microbiome profiles, including higher ...
Researchers have characterized the oral microbiomes of the Japanese population across time by analyzing the DNA preserved in ...
There's a lot of buzz about the gut microbiome-the trillions of microbes that help us digest food and support the immune system. But your mouth is also home to its own highly specialized microbial ...