Biotic interactions modulate protein abundance, reducing functional redundancy and increasing productivity in complex bacterial communities.

A new study finds hitchhiking bacteria dissolve essential ballast in ubiquitous “snow” particles, which could counteract the ocean’s ability to sequester carbon.

The marine labile dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool is a dynamic reservoir of thousands of molecules that cycles approximately one-quarter of Ear...

Potential areas of focus for postdoctoral fellows participating in the MIT-Novo Nordisk Postdoc Program include, but are not limited to, the following: Your complete application should include: In the...

Survey examines how often academics attempt jokes during conference talks — and how these attempts at comedy land.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Why simple models keep winning, where deep learning still shines, and where the field is headed

SUMMARYChildcare outside the home is a common experience for many children in high-income countries. It is associated with an increase in the incidence of infectious diseases—not just for the child bu...

I'm delighted to announce a new publication on the importance of preserving microbiomes to secure health in degrading ecosystems! The paper outlines strategies for preserving critical microbes, functions, and microbial communities using some specific examples, and ties these back to opportunities and challenges to making conservation efforts. This paper was a collaborative effort by several members of the Microbiome Stewardship…

Seven firms reported inconsistent results on the same sample, some over multiple tests. These gut microbe discrepancies could have health consequences.

Crystalline materials for optical applications are synthesized in living dinoflagellates.

Shepherd and Ramachandra et al. present a fast, chromatography-free method for resolving isomeric products from engineered enzymes. This platform enables large-scale screening and identifies improved ...

The viral shunt is a fundamental ecosystem process which diverts the flux of organic carbon fixed through photosynthesis during algal bloom events ...

The discovery of quorum-sensing responsive linear plasmid phages has transformed understanding of phage-bacterial interactions by demonstrating inter-domain chemical communication. To date, however, e...

Nature Microbiology - Richard Lenski traces the legacy of Escherichia coli and how science is evolving to use this model organism in new ways.

Bacteria often coordinate collective behaviors such as biofilm formation and secondary metabolite production through quorum sensing (QS), a regulatory system traditionally linked to high cell density....

The JGI Portal teams (IMG, Mycocosm, Phycocosm, Phytozome, and SMC) would love to sit with you (over Zoom) to hear your stories relating to your usage of the portals, your unsupported use cases, and p...

Nature Machine Intelligence - LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem

Abstract. Biocuration is essential to transform molecular sequence data into standardized, machine-readable resources. Such curated datasets enable compara

Bacteria control individualistic and group behaviors using a form of cell-cell communication called quorum sensing. Quorum sensing relies on the production of chemical signals called autoinducers and ...

Angelina Fanny Hesse reveals how childhood memories of Indonesian pudding solved bacteriology’s greatest problem in 1881. The unpaid laboratory technician whose kitchen knowledge enabled Koch…

TLDR: A massive study of 300+ million lab tests from 1+ million women just proved what women have been saying for years: menopause isn't a gradual slope—it's a physiological cliff. Nearly e