In a new study, researchers at Cornell University have examined how postharvest drying and curing methods impact the ...

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Although gut microbiota and lipid metabolites have been suggested to be closely associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), the interactions between gut microbiota, ...

Leafy greens have had a checkered past in terms of food safety — it’s been suspected that pre-harvest irrigation water may ...

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These results show that there is a significant reduction in microbial diversity in gastric carcinoma. Furthermore, the fact that the weighted UniFrac captured more diversity than unweighted metrics ...

We aim to present a comprehensive picture of microbial transmission and potential immune imprinting before and after delivery. In addition, we discuss the possibility of in utero microbial ...

The first global study to tackle this vast question, conducted at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, reveals astonishingly high microbial diversity in certain subsurface ...

2016), which can help to disclose the overall impact on microbial communities. For RDA, all explanatory variables were log (x + 1) transformed prior to analysis. Permutation test parameters were set ...

2020). This rigorous Sparse Microbial Causal Mediation Model (Sparse MCMM) applies a linear log-contrast regression model and Dirichlet regression model to estimate the causal direct effect of ...