a chemical process some modern bacteria and archaea use to stay alive. We also tried a new method to estimate Luca's age by using genes which we think duplicated before Luca together with information ...

In a paper published in Science Advances, the Pilhofer Lab (IMBB) together with the Albers Lab from the University of ...

This important work advances our understanding of DNA methylation and its consequences for susceptibility to DNA damage. This work presents evidence that DNA methylation can accentuate the genomic ...

As a result, this often overlooked metric needs more analysis in the study of the gut microbiome. Researchers often ...

Scientists have developed a new machine-learning model to predict microbial load — the density of microbes in our guts — and ...

In sickness or in health, the billions of microorganisms that inhabit our guts are our constant companions throughout life. In the past few decades ...

When studying microbiomes, researchers tend to focus more strongly on microbial composition – the relative proportion of ...

But in that short time, we’ve discovered about two dozen species of human ancestors in Europe, Africa, and Asia—which you can see mapped out in the infographic below. The first known fossils ...

There are four types of parainfluenza. Types 1 and 2 are most common in the fall, while type 3 occurs annually and peaks in the spring and early summer. Type 4 affects people throughout the year.