Microbial genetics encompasses the study of heredity and variation in microscopic organisms, providing fundamental insights into gene structure, function and regulation. This field underpins our ...
Risk of graft-vs.-host disease, an often-debilitating and sometimes-deadly bone marrow transplant complication, can be reduced by matching key immune genes in a transplant recipient and their donor.
Michael Weinstein (left) is a senior bioinformatics scientist at Tecan (Männedorf, Switzerland) based in Denver (CO, USA). In this interview, Michael discusses how next-generation sequencing (NGS) can ...
Plant and Soil, Vol. 441, No. 1/2 (August 2019), pp. 301-315 (15 pages) Background and aims The increasing input of anthropogenically-derived nitrogen (N) to ecosystems raises a crucial question: how ...
How are microbial communities, like those in the human gut and natural environment, fueling the spread of antimicrobial resistance? Here’s how. A new scientific review from Shenyang Agricultural ...
It is not usual for one life to be transformed into a living laboratory for the science of aging. When Maria Branyas Morera passed away at 117 years and 168 days, she bequeathed more than a ...
A recent study shows that bacteria living inside colorectal tumors form distinct ecosystems that are closely linked to how ...