Most cyanobacterial genomes are rich in the GCGATCGC octamer, also known as Highly Iterated Palindrome 1 (HIP1). Despite its description over three decades ago, the biological function of this highly ...

Posted on behalf of the Swiss National Reference Center for Emerging Viral Infections, Geneva University Hospitals and the Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich (Partner Laboratory National Reference Center for Emerging Viral Infections). On 5 May 2026, the Swiss National Reference Center for Emerging Viral Infections (Geneva University Hospitals) confirmed a case of Andes strain in a Swiss resident who had travelled on the MV Hondius cruise ship. The virus was sequenced from bloo...

This study analyzed the gut microbiota composition of 95 adolescents and its relationship with body mass index, dietary habits, and socioeconomic status using 16S rRNA sequencing (V3-V4). The dominan...

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Introduction Case History: On January 30, 2025, the Ministry of Health declared an outbreak of Sudan Ebola Virus (SUDV) Disease in Kampala, Uganda, following the death of a healthcare worker at Mula...

The authors applied a genomic and evolutionary approach to study Staphylococcus aureus in host adaptation during colonisation revealing signals of adaption in metabolic genes, in regulators of quorum-...

Three different studies in this issue use metagenomics to study the bacterial and viral dynamics of freshwater microbiomes, highlighting the ecological and environmental drivers of these ecosystems.

The current “consensus” order in which amino acids were added to the genetic code is based on potentially biased criteria, such as the absence of s...

While numerous computational frameworks and workflows are available for recovering prokaryote and eukaryote genomes from metagenome data, only a limited number of pipelines are designed specifically for viromics analysis. With many viromics tools developed in the last few years alone, it can be chal …

The gut microbiota plays a vital role in various physical and physiological processes, including immune system regulation, neurotransmitter production, inflammatory response modulation, and the inhibi...