The proliferation of microbiome research over the past several years has spawned nearly as many questions as it has answered and revealed myriad new frontiers to analyze and understand. One of the most intriguing fields of study is the link between the human microbiome and the pathogenesis of diseases, including diabetes, liver disease, and cancer.…
Microbiome research’s emergence as a burgeoning field has yielded an ever-increasing availability of data sets to study. While the massive amounts of data have presented the opportunity for a variety of novel studies, their intrinsic nature of being high-dimensional, undetermined, sparse, and compositional has also caused challenges. This explosion of data, both in volume and…
If you’re a student or a faculty member who spends any time on the University of California, San Diego campus, you may know a lot more about what’s in your pee and poop—and that of your colleagues—than you might care to admit.
Topics include causes of miscarriage, preterm birth issues, preeclampsia and developmental origins of health and disease
Gene expression patterns associated with pandemic viral infections provide a map to help define patients’ immune responses, measure disease severity, predict outcomes and test therapies — for current and future pandemics
New studies have found that while they may be able to survive on beds, floors, and other surfaces near COVID patients, they are unlikely to be passed on to others. University researchers California The San Diego Medical College wiped the surface of the COVID patient’s room before, during, and after the occupation. Coronavirus was found in about…
While the coronavirus may be able to survive on beds, floors, and other surfaces near COVID patients, it’s unlikely to be passed to another person, a new study finds.
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 also tends to co-locate with one particular type of bacteria
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 also tends to co-locate with one particular type of bacteria
The blood sugar-lowering drug metformin prevented pulmonary inflammation, a major factor in COVID-19 severity and mortality, in studies of mice infected by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus
