Our microbiome composition has huge implications for health and disease but is notoriously difficult to manipulate, with these new techniques we can better study the roles of specific genes in the microbiome! #DEB263
This review details new methods to study how RNA is regulated and could help us better understand how changes in RNA metabolism lead to disease. #DEB263
Bacterial antibiotic resistance genes developed in hedgehogs long before they developed in humans. This research emphasizes that the health of humans and animals are dependent upon one another๐ฆ #DEB263
Nature research paper: Resistance genes against the antibiotic methicillin may have emerged in bacteria in hedgehogs more than a hundred years before they emerged in strains in humans https://t.co/8O4OCcxRnT