It can however be washed away and lost through bad farming practices, from monocultural maize plantations and compaction to microbe destroying agri

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In another set of experiments, they obtained fecal samples from patients with the disease and transplanted them into the microbe-free group of mice

Almost from the time it was first observed in a Sichaun poultry dealer in the spring of 2014, HPAI H5N6 - a reassortment of H5N1 and H6N6 - had the

As part of the lab tests, the researchers used mice having symptoms of Parkinson’s, and divided them into two categories: one group was bred in a s

The new study by the Scripps research team published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society could help identify a less energy-intensive pr

(This blog post was prepared by students enrolled in the Koala Poop Microbiome Class in the Fall of 2016 at UC Davis) The last seven weeks of labor

Martens notes that in addition to the gnotobiotic facility, the research was possible because of the microbe DNA and RNA sequencing capability buil

Even gut microbes have a routine.

I hope we have all had an opportunity over the past holiday weekend to give thanks for what we have—it is important to step back and reflect from t

"Using microbes to protect plants is a new trend, and Streptomyces is not the only type of microbe that can be used in biocontrol," says

Kan's team started with a bacteria called Rhodothermus marinus: an organism which lives in Icelandic thermal springs.

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According to the researchers, this is the oldest example of a sulphur-oxidizing bacteria ever discovered, and provides the first evidence that this

Based on this, we characterized each microbe's metabolism and found that both their metabolic capabilities and our diet play important roles i

Leprosy. We’ve all heard of it, but do you really know what causes it? What does the word make you think of?

Img. 1 SeqTrace program matching forward (upper row graph) and reverse (down row graph) sequencing reads.

It is used to make high specification polyurethanes with enhanced properties such as hydrolysis and microbe resistance, good low temperature perfor

A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microb

This episode: Some fungi change from making plants sick to being helpful to plants! How do plants react to them?

This event came on the heels of the company's decision to collaborate with Amyris to explore further uses of microbe engineering technology.

Despite the huge diversity of gut bacteria, two main response patterns emerged in the study — microbe species either increased or decreased in thei

“The microbe side refers to the fact that we are just starting to tap into what fermentation can do at large scale.

A studied compared to foregut and hind gut flora of cows and Hoatzins and found that they had a common pattern indicating that the convergence betw