After discovering a novel organelle found in protozoan parasites, the University of Pennsylvania’s Roos created a widely used eukaryotic pathogen database.
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.
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.
Water bears can reanimate after years of desiccation—and gel-forming proteins unique to the animals may explain how.
The prominent researcher has been put on administrative leave pending an investigation into unspecified allegations.
The 20-year project calls into question the conventional wisdom about the role plants will play in mitigating future climate change.
The US Senate narrowly approved the politician, who does not have a science background.
Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.
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