An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (Braunschweig, Germany)—and the University of Illinois (U.S ...

Scientists know relatively little about archaea compared to their bacterial counterparts, but evidence of their roles in health and disease are beginning to trickle in. Methanogens are not the only ...

The non-bacterial gut microbiome, particularly fungi and archaea, plays an important role in metabolism, immune regulation, and microbial ecosystem stability through complex interactions with bacteria ...

The beauty of the DNA code is that organisms interpret it unambiguously. Each three-letter nucleotide sequence, or codon, in a gene codes for a unique amino acid that’s added to a chain of amino acids ...

The gut microbiota comprises a highly diverse ecosystem of bacteria, archaea, fungi and viruses inhabiting the gastrointestinal tract. Microbial ecology of the gut explores the composition, spatial ...