Fungal Spores Listen for Farnesol to Decide When to Wake Up
Researchers have identified the receptor Rsd1 as the farnesol sensor that governs fungal spore dormancy and discovered that soil bacteria ...
Tag: Microbiome
GABA: How Fermented Foods Could Calm the Brain and Body
γ-Aminobutyric acid, better known as GABA, has long been famous as the brain's main inhibitory neurotransmitter, the molecule that quiets ...
Antibiotics Can Reshape Host Immunity and Circadian Rhythms Without Any Microbes
A new study in Nature Microbiology shows that vancomycin directly disrupts gut circadian rhythms and immune gene expression in germ-free ...
Dust-borne microbes connect deserts and cities, scientists urge joint restoration
Every gust of wind that sweeps across a dryland landscape does more than stir up dust. It launches an invisible ...
Antibodies That Coat a ‘Good’ Vaginal Bacterium May Help Guard Against Preterm Birth
New research shows that IgG antibodies coating the beneficial vaginal bacterium Lactobacillus crispatus are linked to lower inflammation and a ...
White Clover Understory Reshapes the Hidden Microbial World of Tea Roots
Metagenomic sequencing reveals that planting white clover between tea rows significantly reshapes rhizosphere microbial communities and boosts genes tied to ...
How the Aging Microbiome Shapes Health in Later Life
Microbial communities shift with age in ways that influence cardiometabolic health, cognition, immunity, and frailty, and BMC Geriatrics has launched ...
Gut Microbes May Whisper to Migraine Brains Through Their Chemistry
A new Frontiers in Medicine review argues that gut microbial metabolites, from short-chain fatty acids to nitrate-reducing oral bacteria, may ...
Oral bacterium Fusobacterium nucleatum and endometriosis: what the evidence really shows
A new systematic review finds that evidence linking the oral bacterium Fusobacterium nucleatum to endometriosis is biologically plausible but conflicting, ...
Nasopharyngeal microbiome reveals immune fingerprints of flu-like illness in older adults
A new iScience study of 221 older adults shows that the nasopharynx, not the oropharynx, carries the clearest microbial and ...
Bacillus Strain Compatibility Shapes Synthetic Communities, Rhizosphere Microbiome and Tomato Growth
When two strains of soil bacteria meet on a petri dish, the encounter can end in cooperation or in chemical ...
Microbial RNA in Blood Reveals Hidden Clues About Leukemia Treatment Response
A new study of microbial RNA in the blood of leukemia patients suggests that the circulating metatranscriptome may carry information ...
The archibiome: extending engineered living materials to multiscale built environments
A new perspective article introduces the archibiome, a framework that treats buildings as dynamic microbial ecosystems in which engineered living ...
Scientists Decode the Microbial Alchemy Behind China’s 2,000-Year-Old Sour Meat
In ceramic jars buried in the kitchens of Guizhou Province, China, a quiet microbial revolution has been unfolding for more ...
Yeast Reshapes the Cow Rumen Microbiome Even When Concentrates Are Fed Unevenly
A 4 × 4 Latin square study with rumen-cannulated Holstein–Friesian cows shows that uneven concentrate allocation only shifts the diurnal ...
Scientists Redesign Cocoa Fermentation to Unlock Hidden Health Compounds Beyond Chocolate
A comprehensive review in Heliyon argues that cocoa fermentation, the step that creates chocolate flavor, simultaneously destroys many health-promoting compounds, ...
Engineered Soil Microbes Could Rewrite How Rice Feeds the World
A new review in Frontiers in Industrial Microbiology charts the shift from single-strain bacterial inoculants to engineered synthetic microbial communities ...
From cooperation to collapse: the diet-microbiota-host gene triad in disease and aging
A new review in Frontiers in Microbiomes argues that aging and disease reflect the collapse of an ancient symbiotic network ...
Poplar leaf microbes follow the tree’s nitrogen and phosphorus recipe
A Chinese research team has shown that the invisible microbial communities living on poplar leaves are shaped far more by ...
A generalized supervised contrastive learning framework for integrative multi-omics prediction models
A new machine-learning framework called MB-SupConCon extends supervised contrastive learning to continuous responses, enabling more accurate and biologically interpretable prediction ...
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