Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of ...

Your "roommate's" genes could be influencing the bacteria living in your gut, and vice versa, according to a study of rats ...

If something similar occurs in humans, and given growing evidence that the gut microbiome matters for health, genetic ...

Bacteria are among the most diverse and ancient forms of life on Earth. Yet, much of what is known about them comes from a ...

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

Gut microbiome composition may be shaped not only by an individual’s own genes but also by the genes of their friends ...

The gut microbiome - made up of trillions of microbes in the digestive tract - is vital for digestion and overall health. Diet and medication shape these microbial ecosystems, but the contribution of ...

New Haven, Conn. — The 2025 Gruber Genetics Prize is being awarded to geneticist and molecular biologist Rotem Sorek, Ph.D., of the Weizmann Institute of Science, for his discoveries in the immune ...

Edward A. Birge. Springer Verlag, New York. 2000. Pp. 559. Price £44.50, hardback. ISBN 0 387 98730 4. This is very much a pre-genomic, ‘E. coli-centric’ treatise on prokaryotic genetics with a ...

Researchers conducted a high-throughput growth assay and machine learning to address the genetic and environmental interplay on bacterial growth. The findings indicated that the environmental ...