Somehow, 26 new species of bacteria have managed to survive in the harshest place on Earth -- a NASA cleanroom.

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...

Although constipation and diarrhea may seem like opposite problems, they both hinge on the same underlying issue: how much fluid moves into the gut. These common issues affect millions of people in ...

From your brain to your heart, added sugar quietly impacts nearly every part of your body in ways you may not even realize.

Background Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) arises from complex interactions among diet, host and gut microbiome. Although diet influences intestinal inflammation, the microbial and metabolic pathways ...

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

A newly identified class of RNA molecules has been discovered in bacteria living inside the human body. These circular genetic structures, termed obelisks, differ from known viruses and bacteria and ...

Abstract: CT-based bronchial tree analysis is a key step for the diagnosis of lung and airway diseases. However, the topology of bronchial trees varies across individuals, which presents a challenge ...

I would like to report an issue encountered with the classify.seqs command in Mothur version 1.48.3, using the SILVA v138.2 database (Full-length sequences and taxonomy references). We use the ...

Hello, I was finally able to run kraken2 with GTDB and NCBI fungal genome database however I ran this process separately due to RAM issues. Now, the issue is I want to combine kraken2 reports from ...

Intelligent Environment Research Center, Beijing Jiaotong University, No.1 Guanzhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100080, China Department of Energy and Refrigerating, Air-Conditioning Engineering, ...