Recent Articles

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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.

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  Dr. Wei Wei Promoted to Associate Professor

   Posted on July 10, 2024

  Wei Wei, PhD – an accomplished cancer researcher with expertise in biotechnology and cancer systems biology – has been promoted to ISB associate professor. The Wei Lab focuses on understanding how cancer cells adapt to therapeutic treatment to foster therapy resistance by coordinating their internal molecular machinery and how these adaptive changes evolve within diverse tumors influenced by the tumor microenvironment.