A diverse complement of amino acids are conjugated to bile acids by bacteria, and the resulting MCBAs have very different chemical properties. For example, we have evidence that if bacteria use a ...

This makes GEMs particularly useful for understanding how organisms respond to genetic changes and environmental stresses. For example, I can use this method to predict how an organism will react ...

“Imagine each species’ genome is a book, and each little DNA fragment is a sentence,” Rohwer said in a press statement. “Each sample has hundreds of books, all cut up into these sentences. To ...

Bombs, bullets and shrapnel are taking a terrible toll on the battlefields of Ukraine and Gaza. But an old opportunistic ...

This wouldn’t be the first evidence of bacteria eating toxic alkaloids, she says, but examples from nature are rare. Some bacteria can break down caffeine, for instance. Also, microbes in the ...