Case study: Discovering new enzymes to upcycle food waste
Science & Technology EMBL-EBI data resource helps scientists upcycle animal by-products.
2024
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Science & Technology EMBL-EBI data resource helps scientists upcycle animal by-products.
2024
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Looking to understand microbial predator-prey relationships, EMBL’s newest group leader tackles a molecular ‘arms race’ in his lab.
2022
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Science & Technology EMBL researchers used data from over 300 human faecal microbiota transplants to gain an ecological understanding of what happens when two gut microbiomes clash.
2022
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Science & Technology Researchers studying a massive cohort of European patients have found that commonly prescribed drugs for cardiometabolic disorders can have long-term effects on the gut microbiome. Such effects can complicate the understanding of how disease affects the microbiome and must be taken into…
2021
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Lab Matters EMBL’s EU Green Week event showcased various ways molecular biology research can help solve environmental challenges.
2021
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Science & Technology Researchers discovered the dominant species of bacteria in kefir grains cannot endure without other species that help the 'team' survive.
2021
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People & Perspectives On microbiomes, public engagement and not being boring
2019
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Science & Technology Many microbes traverse the oral-gut barrier
2019
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Science & Technology A new database of bacteria in the human microbiome is the most comprehensive to date.
2019
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Science & Technology New search engine allows researchers to identify antibiotic resistance genes or mutations in real time
2019
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Science & Technology Meet the organisers of EMBO’s first course on molecular geobiology
2018
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Science & Technology How microbes can create niches for each other
2017
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Science & Technology Science and Society event answers controversial questions about gut microbes
2017
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Science & Technology What's a microbiome? How on Earth do they work?
2016
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Science & Technology In a nutshell : The gut metagenome is the collection of all the genomes of all the microbes in the human intestinal tract : it is specific to each human, like a second genetic signature At least in healthy humans, this personal metagenome is stable over time The gut metagenome is…
2012
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Science & Technology In 1870 the German scientist Ernst Haeckel mapped the evolutionary relationships of plants and animals in the first ‘tree of life’. Since then scientists have continuously redrawn and expanded the tree adding microorganisms and using modern molecular data, yet, many parts of the tree…
2006
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Science & Technology EBI researchers have changed our view of 4 billion years of microbial evolution. Christos Ouzounis and colleagues have gained intriguing quantitative insights into how gene families are transferred, not only ‘vertically’ through passage from one organism to its progeny, but also…
2005
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