A new collaborative study published by a research team from the Wayne State University School of Medicine, the CReATe Fertility Centre and the University of Massachusetts Amherst provides the first in-depth look at the microbiome of human...
Read More »RNA-Seq reveals workings of antibiotic resistance
Using experimental and computational methods, Boston College researchers reveal workings of bacterial defense system This image from Boston College researchers depicts the first curated, genome-scale metabolic network of the lethal bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae; a major cause of illness around the ...
Read More »UW-Madison lab decodes lake bacterial cycles with RNA sequencing
by Shelby Lyon of the Journal Sentinel – When a sheriff’s deputy found a van parked at the edge of Sparkling Lake in Vilas County at 2 a.m. on July 7, chances are he expected to find something nefarious afoot. ...
Read More »The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP) – New database provides vast trove of genetic information on tiny single-celled organisms in the ocean
The ocean holds a bewildering array of microscopic life. Many of the smaller organisms are difficult to study or even to identify under a microscope. For this reason, scientists often look at the genes of these microbes to figure out ...
Read More »Response of Salmonella genes to trigger infection
from Food Quality News.com By Joe Whitworth+ A technique to map the differing response of Salmonella to conditions in the human body has been uncovered by scientists. The study has implications for the future design of drugs and vaccines to be ...
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