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.
After years of obscurity, strains of mice with mutations in particular genes are thrust to the fore of autism research.
The findings more than double the number of known defense mechanisms, piquing the interests of molecular biology tool developers.
The approach, which has never before been successfully attempted in primates, could lead to improved animal models for human biology and disease.
Crops produced using mutagenic technologies such as CRISPR should generally be exempt from regulatory laws governing GMOs, according to the published opinion.
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.
Researchers map learning-induced chromatin alterations in mouse brain cells, and find that many affect autism-associated genes.
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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