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Our gut microbes and genes are in constant conversation, shaping each other in ways that affect everything from immunity and ...

The trillions of microbes that live in the human gut may play a bigger role in health than previously thought, according to a ...

A new study has highlighted the crucial role of rhizospheric bacteria in regulating tomato plants' multinutrient traits under ...

The work, described in a preprint paper, has the potential to create new treatments and accelerate research into artificially ...

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Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that pasteurization methods shape the gut microbiomes of preterm ...