Nearly 10% of the genome of all mammals is made up of viruses that infected mammalian ancestors eons ago. These retroviruses inserted their DNA into mammalian chromosomes and, while time has reduced many of them to useless genetic rubble, some of them, or fragments...
There is a sobering paper in the journal of the American Society for Microbiology, mBio, this week, written by Marc Sze and Patrick Schloss from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan. As they report, obesity is a growing health...
Storify has just published a whole list of tweets from delegates to ISEMPH16. A useful and fun retrospective! Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintWhatsAppLinkedInLike this:Like...
The idea that gut microbes can communicate with the brain to change behavior and, correspondingly, that signals from the brain can influence microbial gut populations has been around for a while and most of us in evmed land are pretty convinced by these links. Joe...
Why is there a large difference in susceptibility to cancer among the different body organs? Why, for instance, is it rare to find cancer in the small bowel and heart, but common in the colon and breast? And why, although it often produces benign fibroid tumors, is...
