Bacillus spores are remarkable structures formed by certain bacteria, particularly those in the Firmicutes phylum, which allow them to survive extreme environmental conditions. These spores can ...

Veracode said that its acquisition of software supply chain security startup Phylum, announced Monday, will enhance its capabilities around protecting against malicious open-source code.

Researchers analyzed 168,464 samples to uncover how geographic and technical factors shape global gut microbiome variation, ...

In order to classify bacteria we have adopted the Linnaean system, which comprises hierarchies into which an organism is placed. In the large intestine of healthy adults the two most dominant phyla ...

Impact of pancreatic tumour biomechanics on diagnosis and post-operative complications. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract does not ...

Short-term fruit and vegetable juicing causes microbial shifts in the oral and gut microbiome, but these changes are mostly ...

Effective solutions to the vast amounts of plastic waste we produce are still being sought, and four innocuous insects that ...

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), a severe pregnancy disorder, is a temporary form of diabetes that occurs during gestation. Astragaloside IV (AS IV), a natural and effective ...

Introduction: Improving feed efficiency (FE) is a significant goal in animal breeding programs. Variations in FE and its relationship with rumen microbiota remain poorly understood across different ...

In the meta-analysis, all microbiome data were corrected for age, gender, BMI, antibiotics use and sequence read depth. The predominant phylum in each cohort was Firmicutes with abundances of 76.7%, ...

The analysis of the gut microbial composition of all samples identified Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes as the most ... in taxonomic distribution at the phylum and genus levels was observed between ...