Your "roommate's" genes could be influencing the bacteria living in your gut, and vice versa, according to a study of rats ...

In humans, only two genes have been reliably linked to gut bacteria: the lactase gene, which influences milk-digesting ...

A study of over four thousand rats shows gut microbiomes are shaped by both individual genes and the genes of social partners through shared microbes.

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

Burkholderia pseudomallei is considered one of the most dangerous bacterial pathogens in the tropics. The disease melioidosis, caused by these ...

A research team at Leibniz-HKI has described a new enzyme that renders the highly toxic molecule malleicyprol harmless.

Research published in Nature Communications found that the SAR11 bacteria, one of the ocean's most abundant life forms, are ...

Healthy soils depend on a healthy soil microbiome, with beneficial organisms like bacteria providing key ecosystem services.

Iron is vital but toxic when free, so organisms store it in proteins like ferritin. This study in frogs showed ferritin gene ...

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...