The nationwide experiment will initially include around 100,000 volunteers.
The microscopic water bears will be featured in an exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History beginning Saturday, February 17.
The microscopic water bears will be featured in an exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History beginning Saturday, February 17.
In one of the first looks at the urinary virome, researchers find hundreds of viruses, most of which have never been sequenced before.
The Purdue University researcher is one of the first to examine the molecular processes that underlie infection by soil microbes.
The new database includes data from 27,000 samples collected at sites ranging from Alaskan permafrost to the ocean floor.
Like animals, plants host communities of microbes that influence a wide variety of their biological processes.
Pectin fragments may signal plant cells to maintain a type of growth suited to darkness.
Mitochondria may sustain temperatures more than 10 °C warmer than human cells, say researchers.
The findings more than double the number of known defense mechanisms, piquing the interests of molecular biology tool developers.
Millions of measurements from 23 people who consumed extra calories every day for a month reveal changes in proteins, metabolites, and gut microbiota that accompany shifts in body mass.
Scientists are beginning to unravel the ways in which we develop a healthy relationship with the bugs in our bodies.