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New faculty member Ophelia Venturelli explores how the microbial world in our gastrointestinal tract can be engineered to ...

Researchers further developed and published a publicly available identification and annotation tool named ‘GMSC-mapper,’ enabling future studies to characterize their microbial metagenomic ...

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Our skin is a crucial, protective barrier that is considered to be a major part of our immune defenses. When pathogens try to infect us, they have to get into our bodies or into our cells, and ...

How can computer models help design microbial communities? Researchers examined the development perspectives of so-called synthetic biology. In a new article, they explain why computer-aided biology ...

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Scientists found disease-causing microbes that could be traveling more than 1,200 miles through the atmosphere.