Scientists commonly use bacteria as tiny factories that can produce molecules for uses ranging from drug development to ...

A new advance in animal husbandry involving a popular aquarium fish should speed the pace of discovery in laboratory studies ...

Food sensitivity tests are not currently considered a reliable or accurate method of diagnosing food sensitivities. The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology (AAAAI) does not endorse home ...

Dr Robert Koch was a pivotal figure in the golden age of microbiology. It was the German bacteriologist who discovered the bacteria that causes anthrax, septicaemia, tuberculosis and cholera, and his ...

In this Perspective, Banerjee, Dasgupta and van der Heijden discuss how intensive agricultural practices can lead to the taxonomic, physiological, genetic and functional homogenization of microbial ...

At around 10 years ago, at the time of the first publication by the Gut Microbiota for Health Expert Panel of the British ...

TRAnsmission Clustering of Strains (TRACS) is a versatile and highly scalable computational tool that infers strain-level transmission of microorganisms within a host population using metagenomic or ...