Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are upgraded to improve the quality of river water downstream, but the effects of such upgrades on aquatic ...

A 10-year investigation of two Beijing rivers shows that wastewater treatment plant upgrades significantly alter nitrogen-cycling microbial communities and viral ecology despite stable overall ...

Background The association between lower adult lung function and increased cardiovascular comorbidity has not been adequately explained. We investigated whether shared developmental signalling ...

Underground environments like soil and aquifers teem with microbial life. These tiny microbes play a big role in cycling nutrients and breaking down or transforming pollutants. However, scientists ...

The term “metagenome” refers to the collective genetic material of microbial organisms within a given environment, which can be observed within or among individual “microbes” (single individuals or ...

Study finds CRISPR/Cas gene editing causes “chromatin fatigue” – another surprise mechanism by which it can produce unwanted changes in gene function. Report: Claire Robinson and Prof Michael Antoniou ...

Correction for “Higher-order interactions in neuronal function: From genes to ionic currents in biophysical models,” by Maria Reva, Alexis Arnaudon, Mickael Zbili, Abdullah Makkeh, Henry Markram, Jean ...

Abstract: Large tree-of-life (ToL) scale databases of microbial genomes are powerful resources for exploring genome structure and function from a phylogenomic context. Despite the growing availability ...

A gene therapy that targets a form of retinitis pigmentosa showed a signal to improve retinal function for up to 3 years after treatment, according to a small clinical trial. The phase 2 SKYLINE trial ...

The transposable elements library was construct by RepeatModeler, and RepeatMasker was used to predict transposable elements (Tarailo-Graovac and Chen, 2009; Tempel, 2012). The transposable elements ...

Transgenic and adeno-associated virus approaches were used to overexpress DWORF in the heart. Mice underwent transverse aortic constriction (TAC) to model pressure overload–induced heart failure.