The direct recovery of microbial genomes from complex environments is now routine. Going from environmental genomes to laboratory experiments is rare, but the tide is turning. A. Murat Eren is at the ...

Scientists have pinpointed a group of bacteria that consistently appear in high numbers in healthy people, suggesting that ...

Following on from the recent official launch of BGI’s new CycloneSEQ™ is the first independently reviewed benchmarking data. The CycloneSEQ™ platform delivers long-reads using novel nanopore ...

Researchers have now developed a new single-cell genome technique to understand how bacteria interact and exchange genetic material, including antibiotic resistance genes at the individual cell level.

- Proceeds to fund expansion of leading-edge, interdisciplinary drug discovery platform and advance a preclinical pipeline initially focused on oncology and infectious diseases - Funding led by ...

A new technique will make it much easier for researchers to discover the traits or activities encoded by genes of unknown function in microbes, a key step toward understanding the roles and impact of ...

A mysterious, hard-to-grow gut bacterium keeps showing up in healthy people worldwide—and it may be quietly protecting our microbiomes.

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

In a huge global study led by University of Cambridge researchers, a single group of bacteria—named CAG-170—has repeatedly ...

Venn diagram of shared and unique publicly available bacterial metagenome-only operational taxonomic units (mOTUs) originating from various genome categories. The gray circle represents 127,766 ...

University of Toronto researchers have expanded our understanding of bacterial immunity with the discovery of a new protein ...