This study presents ‘Ayu,’ a machine learning tool to predict secreted proteins in marine metagenomic datasets. The authors show that Ayu could recover more than double the proteins in the ...

Interventions involving bacteria or fungi could help to sequester greenhouse gases, create more sustainable products and ...

Emphasis on discussion of primary literature in environmental microbiology and microbial ecology. Significant laboratory component and minor field component. (Not offered 2025-26).

If you've ever noticed how memories from the same day seem connected while events from weeks apart feel separate, a new study reveals the reason: Our brains physically link memories that occur ...

Microplastics, like the ones pictured here, have been linked to several health concerns. Researchers from Boston University identified another downside to microplastics -- bacteria exposed to them can ...

Researches may finally be able to forecast dangerous red algae blooms - Red tides can lead to millions of dollars in losses, ...

The findings are especially concerning for people in high-density, impoverished areas like refugee settlements, where ...

Mar. 21, 2025 — Scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage invaders -- by seizing genetic material from weakened, ...

Researchers were stunned to discover that bacteria's antimicrobial resistance is strengthened when exposed to plastic ...

The rapid diversification of synthetic biology tools holds promise in making some classically hard-to-solve environmental problems tractable. Here we review longstanding problems in the Earth and ...

The disease is strongly influenced by environmental factors such as rainfall ... and can escape detection in inexperienced microbiology laboratories, as chances of misidentification with common ...

The sea is turning red! Researchers make breakthrough discovery that could help forecast dangerous algae blooms - Red tides ...