Patterns of Gene Flow Define Species of Thermophilic Archaea: PLoS Biology
“Patterns of homologous gene flow among genomes of 12 strains from a single hot spring in Kamchatka, Russia, demonstrate higher levels of gene flow within...
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Influence of Milk-Feeding Type and Genetic Risk of Developing Coeliac Disease on Intestinal Microbiota of Infants: The PROFICEL Study
“This study demonstrates that the milk-feeding type and the HLA-DQ genotype differently influence the bacterial colonization pattern of the newborn intest...
Crowd-Sourcing Drug Discovery
“The first challenge that OSDD’s cyber-community assigned itself was to glean more information from the M. tuberculosis genome. It was sequenced in ...
Biodiversity of Indigenous Saccharomyces Populations from Old Wineries of South-Eastern Sicily: Preservation and Economic Potential
“We report on the remarkable degree of biodiversity in the wine yeast populations naturally present in a small area of Sicily where traditional (non-indus...
Vaccine development: Man vs MRSA : Nature News
“For decades, Robert Daum has studied the havoc wreaked by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Now he thinks he can stop it for good.” Exce...
China’s Sequencing Powerhouse Comes of Age
“With new sequencing centers in Europe and the United States, BGI hopes its growing clout will help deliver the benefits promised by genomics—and revenue ...
Ecosphere Associates, Inc.: Closed Ecosystem, Self Contained Aquarium
“The Original EcoSphere® is the world’s first totally enclosed ecosystem – a complete, self-contained and self-sustaining miniature world encased in...
UM Carey Law | Federal Regulation of Probiotics
An Analysis of the Existing Regulatory Framework and Recommendations for Alternative Frameworks A team of researchers at the University of Maryland Baltimore is...
Welcome, Bottlenose Intelligent Social Dashboard. What took ya?
A bit of history: I experienced a huge brain- and world-expanding time during my Nokia Lifeblog years (2004-05). Early on, we paired up with Six Apart (via Mark...
PLoS Biology: How Bacteria Turn Fiber into Food
“Now, a new study by Eric Martens, David Bolam, and colleagues has looked into how a pair of the most common species of gut bacteria metabolize polysaccha...