The gut microbiome research field has rapidly evolved, driven by new insights into the profound ways in which gut microbes affect metabolism, immune ...

A team of scientists from Portugal and Canada has developed a new tool called ulrb, which uses machine learning to autonomously identify rare microorganisms in microbiome datasets. This approach ...

The field of microbial ecology has been revolutionized by metagenomics, the analysis of genomic data obtained from environmental samples. Whole-genome shotgun sequencing can both uncover the genomic ...

Microbiologists are searching for a universal theory of how bacteria form communities based not on their species but on the roles they play. Bacteria don’t throw dinner parties or tell jokes, but they ...