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Jacobs-Wagner PNAS1
June 25, 2019
Even after antibiotic treatment, some Lyme disease patients continue to suffer from debilitating arthritis. A new Yale study may explain why. The tick-borne bacterium ...
Goodman - Marieke F. Buffing
June 3, 2019
Yale researchers identified human gut microbes that metabolize over 150 therapeutic drugs, a finding that highlights the role bacteria play in determining how well...
Christine Jacobs-Wagner
May 30, 2019
Examples of biological scaling are everywhere. The paw of a mouse is smaller than the human hand. Our own organs and limbs typically scale with our body size as we develop...
Nikhil Malvankar
April 4, 2019
See also The New York Times: Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid: ‘We Have an Electric Planet’ Deep in the ocean or underground, where there is no oxygen, Geobacter ...
April 4, 2019
By Bill Hathaway Deep in the ocean or underground, where there is no oxygen, Geobacter bacteria “breathe” by projecting tiny protein filaments called “nanowires” into the...
Andrew Goodman
February 7, 2019
People sometimes suffer toxic side effects from drugs that help many others. Yale scientists have identified a surprising explanation — the gut microbiome. The research, ...