The gut microbiome and epigenetics—molecular switches that turn genes on or off—are intertwined, and both contribute to ...

PhD candidate Dario Ramirez Villacis collected soil and micro-organisms in the Andes Mountains in Ecuador, the center of origin of wild potato plants.

Vedanta Biosciences is a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new category of microbiome-based oral therapies for gastrointestinal diseases. Vedanta's lead program, VE303, is ...

From lemurs to fennec foxes, wild animals are bought and sold around the world-legally and illegally, dead and ...

Two kinds of bacteria that naturally occur in the respiratory microbiome may help protect against long COVID when present in ...

What’s the dirtiest part of your body? Experts explain which body parts are germ magnets or too sensitive to touch—and why ...

Spread the loveIn a landmark move, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has officially added microplastics and pharmaceuticals to its Contaminant Candidate List (CCL) for drinking ...

A fourth-year doctoral student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Hopkins, William Brakewood, is undertaking a new ...

Singapore-based studio Edenstone has revealed “Spore Fall,” a human-written, AI-realized microdrama series. The sci-fi ...

Hospital wastewater is difficult to clean because it often carries two very different threats at once: chemical dye residues and harmful bacteria. Researchers have now developed a polyurethane ...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought the term "Polymerase Chain Reaction testing" into the mainstream. The PCR method is a type of nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) that detects a pathogen by finding ...

SAN JOSE — Super Micro Computer has expanded its foothold in San Jose with the purchase of two office and research buildings that it obtained from Lumentum. The tech company paid $43 million to ...