metagenomics

Alex Mohr discusses a trial comparing various calorie-restricted diets on the gut microbiome and overall health measures.

Nanopore sequencing platforms provide researchers the freedom to rapidly sequence long microbial nucleic acid fragments in the field. 

Gang Fang’s new metagenomics method helps sequence rare bacteria.

Discover how metagenomics approaches provide insights into human diseases.

Learn how cutting-edge sequencing techniques accelerate basic and disease research.

Metagenomic sequencing can help detect unknown pathogens, but its widespread use faces challenges.

Researchers find so-called integrons, previously known only in bacteria, in their distantly related microbial relatives. 

Environmental DNA and climate change data suggest that vegetation scarcity led to the mass extinction of herbivore species, including Arctic mammoths.

In this webinar, Sarkis Mazmanian and Daniel Mucida highlight how intestinal bacteria influence neuronal function and regeneration.

Scientists in Canada trace how aquatic communities change as Quebec’s Romaine River flows into the sea.

Methane production, likely achieved by a diverse group of methanogenic archaea, occurs at similar rates in both alive and dead seagrasses, a study reports. The findings highlight the potential environmental impact of seagrasses declining globally.

Researchers discover that bacteria break down medicinal compounds for their nitrogen, solving a mystery that has vexed aquatic veterinarians for years.

Reconstructing the diet and microbiome of human ancestors shows an astonishingly rapid loss of microbiome diversity.

Multiomic approaches identify important metabolites from the gut microbiome.

Centenarians have distinct microbiomes with species that produce unique bile acids, which may help thwart illness.

Researchers sample and sequence bacteria from biological and environmental sources to learn how to overcome selective pressure

The gastrointestinal tracts of people with major depressive disorder harbor a signature composition of viruses, bacteria, and their metabolic products, according to the most comprehensive genomic and metabolomic analysis in depression to date.

Heather Jordan and Jennifer Wargo will discuss how metagenomics studies help uncover new and medically relevant functions of the human microbiome.

From journeys into mines to explorations of volcanoes on the ocean floor, deep voyages reveal the richness of the planet’s deep biosphere.