A research team shows that environmentally relevant antibiotic levels can greatly accelerate the spread of antibiotic resistance genes.A research ...

The gut microbiome is complex, and can be affected by the things we eat, our physical habits, our genes, and other factors.

Arpita Bose and Zhecheng Zhang explore genetic tools in environmental microbes, citing applications in extracellular electron transfer ...

Species of bacteria in the gut microbiome are evolving differently in industrialized and non-industrialized parts of the world, researchers have found. One adaptation that has become prominent in ...

In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or defense that one-ups the competition. But sometimes, as in the corporate ...

In February 2025, researchers at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital reported the first known in utero use of Roche’s spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) drug Evrysdi (risdiplam) in a human foetus. The ...