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The gut microbiome comprises the trillions of bacteria and other microorganisms that live in our digestive tracts, and it has been increasingly connected to human health and disease. A new Yale study ...

The international Healthy Crops consortium has developed an innovative strategy to combat the disease bacterial blight (for short: BB) in rice using genome editing technology. If approved for use by ...

For the past year, the best ectoin skin-care products have been all the hype in the beauty world—and for good reason. This ...

Biologists converted gut bacteria into miniature protein factories that manufacture and release a sustained flow of targeted proteins inside the lower intestines. This technique solves one of the ...

It’s hard to say something nice about viruses, but Dr. Joaquín Martínez Martínez can. Dr. Martínez Martínez is a new aquatic ...

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Addressing one of the longstanding challenges in gastrointestinal drug delivery, Virginia Tech researchers have transformed gut bacteria into tiny protein factories. These engineered microbes ...