Our Microbes Are Starving, and That’s a Good Thing High-protein diet, antibiotics make gut a festering swamp Each of us is only half human. The other half is microbial. Trillions of viruses, fungi,...
New Finding Could Unmask Blood Doping in Athletes RNA changes mark old blood cells among new ones, foiling self-transfusions A Duke research team has found a way to help sporting officials detect whether an athlete’...
From Innovation to Impact Duke researchers are taking their discoveries from the research lab into the marketplace
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...
