The direct recovery of microbial genomes from complex environments is now routine. Going from environmental genomes to laboratory experiments is rare, but the tide is turning. A. Murat Eren is at the ...

Researchers have now developed a new single-cell genome technique to understand how bacteria interact and exchange genetic material, including antibiotic resistance genes at the individual cell level.

Following on from the recent official launch of BGI’s new CycloneSEQ™ is the first independently reviewed benchmarking data. The CycloneSEQ™ platform delivers long-reads using novel nanopore ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Laboratory, have published a study in Science Advances that ...

A new technique will make it much easier for researchers to discover the traits or activities encoded by genes of unknown function in microbes, a key step toward understanding the roles and impact of ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have uncovered how a ...

- Proceeds to fund expansion of leading-edge, interdisciplinary drug discovery platform and advance a preclinical pipeline initially focused on oncology and infectious diseases - Funding led by ...

Mapping the hidden world: Discover how this groundbreaking catalog of nearly one billion small proteins is set to transform our understanding of microbial life. In a recent study published in the ...

In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the ...