Studying how the environment impacts human health
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,…
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…
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…
The GWAS Catalog The GWAS Catalog provides an archival and search service for detailed and richly-annotated data from human genome-wide association studies (GWAS). These data can be searched, browsed, visualised and downloaded on the website (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/). The Catalog includes…
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) focusing on common single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) have advanced our understanding of the genetic causes of many traits and diseases. However, for some conditions, this method is reaching its limits. To better understand the genetic basis of diseases,…
EMBL researchers and collaborators have shown gut bacteria can alter how some carcinogens are metabolised and distributed elsewhere, that leads to bladder cancer. The study can help better understand how individuals’ gut microbiota affects tumour growth.