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Project Update! – Exploring Agrochemical and Plasticizer Interactions with the Gut Microbiome
By Marcella Santiago, Visiting Predoctoral Fellow, Zimmermann Group, EMBL Heidelberg In today’s world, agrochemicals and plasticizers are ubiquitous, playing critical roles in agriculture and industry. However, their impact on human health, particularly through interactions with gut microbiota,…
Project Update! – Exploring the potential use of untargeted Metabolomics for predicting microbial drug metabolism
By Eleonora Mastrorilli, MSc, Scientific Programmer, Zimmermann Group, EMBL Heidelberg The human gut microbiome plays a critical role in human health and disease due to its metabolic interactions with the host and environmental factors, including pharmaceuticals. Although several studies cumulated…
Project Update! – Expanding the UniProt Knowledgebase to document arthropod-human protein interactions
The UniProt Knowledgebase provides users with a comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible set of protein sequences annotated with functional information. Recent evidence suggests that proteins from the saliva of blood-feeding arthropods, such as mosquitoes, lice, sandflies, bedbugs and…
EMBL joins the Earth, Brain and Health Commision
We are delighted to announce that Cornelius Gross, Interim Head of EMBL Rome, has joined the Earth, Brain and Health Commission. In partnership with Nature Mental Health, the commission aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of world-class leaders to develop cutting edge and…