Recent Articles

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  2024 ISB Virtual Microbiome Series

   Posted on September 12, 2024

  Our multi-day microbiome-themed virtual course and symposium is back for the fifth year! ISB is hosting a two-day course on October 16 & 17, 2024, followed by a symposium on October 18, 2024 titled, “A gut feeling: Microbes and their impacts on our minds.” Both events are virtual and free.

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  How Microbes Evolve to Spatially Divide and Conquer an Environment 

   Posted on September 4, 2024

  ISB researchers examined representative organisms of two classes of microbes whose interaction contributes to the conversion of more than 1 gigaton of carbon into methane every year. They found that gene mutations selected over a relatively short timeframe in the two microbes led to distinct functions.

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  Timing is Everything: ISB Study Finds Link Between Bowel Movement Frequency and Overall Health

   Posted on July 16, 2024

  Everybody poops, but not every day. An ISB-led research team examined the clinical, lifestyle, and multi-omic data of more than 1,400 healthy adults. How often people poop, they found, can have a large influence on one’s physiology and health.