How Turning Down the Heat Makes a Baby Turtle Male Scientists start to crack 50-year puzzle of how temperature influences a hatchling’s sex DURHAM, N.C. -- Boy or girl? For those who want to influence their...
AI Detects Patterns Of Gut Microbes for Cholera Risk A hundred kinds of microbes out of 4,000 determine susceptibility to cholera Researchers from Duke University, Massachusetts General Hospital and the International Centre...
Where Are All the Germs? Students Explore Duke's Microbiome Blue Devil Resistome Bass Connections students get first-hand look at antibiotic resistance on campus
Microbes Evolved to Colonize Different Parts of the Human Body Geology software used to measure relative abundance of bugs in and on the body As the human species evolved over the last six million years, our resident microbes did the same...
Breast Cancer Cells Starve For Cystine Blocking key nutrient may kill hard-to-treat form of breast cancer Cancer rewires the metabolism of tumor cells, converting them into lean, mean, replicating...
Hormone Activation Of Genes Takes Teamwork Signaling of genes more complex, nuanced than thought The forward march of science often blunders into the realization that nature’s way of...
