Microbiome

Microbial communities and their role in health, and the sequencing used to study them.

4 articles

Discovery on New Insights in Bacterial Defence and Protection of the Peptidoglycan Wall

Scientists from Umeå University and Cornell University have discovered a newly formed bacterial defence mechanism arising from the regulation of activity of some enzymes via...

Microbiology

Revealing the Hidden Powers of Microbial pH Sensing: A Revolutionary Discovery in Environmental Adaptation

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have found that laboratory evolved pH-sensitive mutations in bacteria rapidly confer transcriptional responses to the environment’s shift in pH, mimicking patterns...

Microbiology
Viome gut bacteria

IBM Watson Gets Curious About Gut Microbiome, Goes Digging w/ Viome

  Gut microbiome seems to have become the new mystery of the human body after genetic code to pique the interest of biotech researchers as well...

Blog

uBiome Pockets $22 Million to Dig Further in Your Poop

uBiome has two new announcements today: the launch of its new SmartGut fecal microbiome test and a $22 million round of Series B funding aimed...

Microbiome