Palmatine improved fatty liver markers in a preclinical type 2 diabetes study
A new preclinical study suggests that palmatine may ease diabetes-linked fatty liver disease by targeting inflammation, oxidative stress,…
Tricorder Tech: Protein Sequencing Advance Offers New Insights Into Life’s Foundations
DNA-encoded Edman degradation on magnetic beads. (A) Reaction scheme for barcoding PTC amino acids via DNA-encoded Edman degradation…
AlphaFold Database expands with millions of predicted protein complexes
A new collaboration between EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Seoul National University has made…
A multi-dimensional framework for establishing and managing a genomic newborn screening program
The above-described methodology resulted in a multi-dimensional framework for a gNBS program consisting of 18 screening criteria (Table 1)…
Novel antimicrobial peptides from dromedary camels offer hope against antibiotic resistance
Antimicrobial resistance poses a growing global health crisis, with few new antibiotics in development. Researchers at Sultan Qaboos…
New spatial omics platform advances biomedical research in Spain
Spatial omics is a new generation of technologies that allow scientists to study cells in their original location…
Reprogrammed neutrophils promote tumor growth
Predicting tumor progression is one of the major challenges in oncology. Scientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE)…
Bacterial enzyme linked to heart complications in pneumonia
Pneumonia is a disease that burdens the healthcare system with more that 1.2 million emergency room visits each…
X-LDR: an atlas of linkage disequilibrium across species | Genome Biology
Overview of the studyDatasets The study surveyed human and nonhuman samples (Table 1). Human samples included 1KG samples, unrelated…
A unified catalog of 14,062 microbial species reference genomes provides new insight into the gut microbiota in high-altitude mammals | Microbiome
Zhang Z, Xu D, Wang L, Hao J, Wang J, Zhou X, et al. Convergent evolution of rumen…
Host species and geographic location shape microbial diversity and functional potential in the conifer needle microbiome | Microbiome
Addison S, Armstrong C, Wigley K, Hartley R, Wakelin S. What matters most? Assessment of within-canopy factors influencing…
High-resolution profiling of bacterial and fungal communities using pangenome-informed taxon-specific long-read amplicons | Microbiome
Song S, Liu Y, Wang NR, Haney CH. Mechanisms in plant-microbiome interactions: lessons from model systems. Curr Opin…