Language model-guided anticipation and discovery of mammalian metabolites
Training dataset A training dataset of known human metabolites was obtained from the HMDB, the largest and most…
Who is more likely to get long COVID? New study uncovers genetic drivers behind the disease – News and events
16 December 2025
Australian scientists have identified the key genetic drivers behind long COVID, revealing why some…
Benchmarking deep learning methods for biologically conserved single-cell integration | Genome Biology
A unified benchmarking framework for single-cell integration To systematically evaluate various loss functions, we established a unified benchmarking…
Microbial and seminal traces of sexual intercourse and forensic implications | Microbiome
Isala cohort cross-sectional study The Isala citizen-science project (https://isala.be/en/) was approved by the Ethical Committee of the Antwerp…
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…
Emerging crops and plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB): a synergistic approach to climate-resilient agriculture | Microbiome
FAO. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022. FAO; IFAD; UNICEF ; WFP; WHO, editor.…
Undergraduate researcher uncovers molecular secrets of HPV’s cancer-causing mechanisms
When Sean Fletcher walked into Sam Biswas’ Medical and Molecular Sciences (MMSC) lab at the University of Delaware…
Massive cross-ancestry study explains why obesity risks differ around the world
By analyzing genetic data from more than 800,000 individuals across six ancestries, researchers have identified previously unknown obesity…
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…
Natural sex reversal imparts permanent compositional changes to the swamp eel gonadal microbiome | Microbiome
Fish maintenance and trial design The sourcing of swamp eel and the rearing procedures employed in this study…
ParaRef: a decontaminated reference database for parasite detection in ancient and modern metagenomic datasets | Genome Biology
Blake DP, Betson M. One health: parasites and beyond. Parasitology. 2017;144:1–6. PubMed Google Scholar Coulter JBS. Global importance…
iNOME-seq: in vivo simultaneous genome-wide mapping of chromatin accessibility, nucleosome positioning, DNA-binding protein sites, and DNA methylation in Arabidopsis | Genome Biology
Plant lines and growth conditions The plant lines used in this study were derived from A. thaliana wild-type…