They fed mice a diet high in soybean protein, which influenced gut bacteria and supported heart health. Analysis showed that this diet increased the production of the short-chain fatty acids in ...

Nov. 18, 2024 — People with chronic liver disease have dramatic changes to the types and functions of bacteria in the gut and mouth, a new study has ...

Particular ice-nucleating proteins produced by certain bacteria have the ability to control the freezing point of water—so efficiently that no other known material can compete. An ...

It is not clear how the conserved components of bacterial type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) recognize and deliver a diverse repertoire of toxic effector proteins. Here, Colautti et al ...

Much of the discourse around REEs today is linked to addressing China's near-monopoly over production and processing—a dependence that Western nations are viewing as a national security threat.

and graduate student Wonseok Choi have been researching ways to separate rare earth elements using reengineered bacterial proteins that are found in nature. The recent discovery of two proteins in ...

Identifying promising circulating proteins that have a causal role in disease pathogenesis is challenging and expensive. Mendelian randomization (MR) has emerged as an important tool for testing ...

Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem around the world. When bacteria like E. coli no longer respond to antibiotics, infections become harder to treat. To develop new ...