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Intermittent Energy Restriction Diet Alters Brain-Gut-Microbiome Axis

Worldwide, more than one billion people are obese. Obesity is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and some cancers.

21 Dec 2023

How Next-Gen Sequencing is Revolutionizing Infection Diagnosis

Scientists from Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital (AP-HP), the Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Inserm, Université Paris-Est Créteil and the Alfort National Veterinary School, coordinated by Professor Marc Eloit and Dr. Anne Jamet in collaboration with Dr. Jacques Fourgeaud and Beatrice Regnault, studied the role of global genetic characterization of samples (or non-targeted metagenomics) using next-generation sequencing (mNGS) in diagnosing infections.

19 Dec 2023

Researchers Unveil Novel Protein Families and Functions in Microbial Communities

Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When it comes to microbial communities, scientists have historically been unable to see beyond the beam -; worse, they didn't even know how big the room is.

12 Oct 2023

Study Highlights Potential Causes for Changing Foraging Habits of Bumblebees

A new study highlights potential causes for changing foraging habits of bumblebees. Using advanced molecular techniques called pollen metabarcoding, researchers investigated interactions between bumblebees and plants in Cuxhaven, Germany, and how they changed over 60 years.

11 Jul 2023

New AI-Assisted Methods to Discover Novel Deaminase Proteins with Unique Functions

At the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, GAO Caixia’s group has introduced the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted techniques to find out novel deaminase proteins with special functions via structural prediction and classification.

28 Jun 2023

Previously Unknown Group of Bacteria Plays Key Role in the Ocean's Energy Cycle

A team of international researchers led by Federico Baltar of the University of Vienna and José M González of the University of La Laguna has identified a previously unknown group of bacteria, called UBA868, as key players in the energy cycle of the deep ocean.

26 Apr 2023

Rapid Metagenomics: A Powerful Tool for the Diagnosis of Pathogenic Organisms

According to recent research presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Copenhagen, Denmark, metagenomic sequencing can also provide quick and actionable antimicrobial resistance predictions to treat bloodstream infections much faster than traditional laboratory tests and has the potential to save lives and help manage antibiotic use (15–18 April 2023).

17 Apr 2023

BlueRemediomics aims to synergize marine microbiome data and biobank resources from across Europe

The European Commission has funded the BlueRemediomics project, which will develop novel tools and approaches to cataloguing marine microbiome data and marine culture collections.

13 Feb 2023

Reshuffling of gene clusters drives the evolution of sunscreen pigments in lichens

Lichens are diverse and colorful organisms that can be found in nearly every environment on Earth, from the arctic tundra to tropical rainforests.

10 Feb 2023

Short-term tomato consumption alters gut bacteria toward a more favorable profile

Two weeks of eating a diet heavy in tomatoes increased the diversity of gut microbes and altered gut bacteria toward a more favorable profile in young pigs, researchers found.

9 Nov 2022

Single-cell functional tool screens active ARB in native soils

Soil antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses significant health risks due to the possibility of transfer to humans via direct contact and the food chain.

3 Oct 2022

NSU explore harmful algae blooms to better understand their origins and management

They are bluish-green, stinky and yucky. We're talking algae blooms, that phenomenon that happens in waterways around Florida. And since 2019, researchers at Nova Southeastern University's (NSU) Halmos College of Arts and Sciences have been studying them with the primary goal to find out why they occur.

13 Jul 2022

New method can identify the vast number of molecules derived from food

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at University of California San Diego, report a new method called untargeted metabolomics to identify the vast number of molecules derived from food that were previously unidentified, but that appear in our blood and our stool.

From UC San Diego 11 Jul 2022

Metagenomics News and Research

Intermittent Energy Restriction Diet Alters Brain-Gut-Microbiome Axis

How Next-Gen Sequencing is Revolutionizing Infection Diagnosis

Researchers Unveil Novel Protein Families and Functions in Microbial Communities

Study Highlights Potential Causes for Changing Foraging Habits of Bumblebees

New AI-Assisted Methods to Discover Novel Deaminase Proteins with Unique Functions

Previously Unknown Group of Bacteria Plays Key Role in the Ocean's Energy Cycle

Rapid Metagenomics: A Powerful Tool for the Diagnosis of Pathogenic Organisms

BlueRemediomics aims to synergize marine microbiome data and biobank resources from across Europe

Reshuffling of gene clusters drives the evolution of sunscreen pigments in lichens

Short-term tomato consumption alters gut bacteria toward a more favorable profile

Single-cell functional tool screens active ARB in native soils

NSU explore harmful algae blooms to better understand their origins and management

New method can identify the vast number of molecules derived from food

Trace Genomics joins Phytobiomes Alliance as a sponsoring partner

Researchers examine successional difference in biocrusts as well as their relationships with microbial ecosystems

Research may help to predict honeybee adaptation to environmental factors

Enzymes found in capybara gut can promote the application of agroindustrial waste

Environmental DNA analysis for tracking potential sources of fecal contamination

Researchers successfully isolate a new, rare bacterial strain

Rapid, inexpensive technique helps search large DNA databases

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