The advances in experimental methods and the development of high performance
bioinformatic tools have substantially improved our understanding of microbial communities …

Background In the last decade, increasing evidence has shown that changes in human gut
microbiota are associated with diseases, such as obesity. The excreted/secreted proteins (…

Changes in the human gut microbiome are associated with obesity and metabolic syndrome,
but the role of the gut virome in both diseases remains largely unknown. We characterized …

The phage-bacteria interactions in the gut microbiome are critical for health and disease, but
viruses of the human gut microbiome are poorly understood. Here, we present a simple and …

Background In spite of the emergence of RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), microarrays remain
in widespread use for gene expression analysis in the clinic. There are over 767,000 RNA …

Abstract Changes in the composition of the human gut microbiome are recognized to have
a significant association with obesity and metabolic syndrome. Mexico leads worldwide …

The omics technologies applied to cancer research has generated millions of biological data
sets. However, how to integrate these data sets with biomedical research has become a …

… Bikel here tells his own compelling life story. Born in Austria, raised in Palestine, educated
in England, and with a stellar career in the United States and around the world, Bikel offers a …

… beloved colleagues, Shirley Steinberg. Although too weak to speak with her himself, Shirley
asked that I … After the phone call, I told Dennis what Shirley had said. His response, "Ah, that …

This essay traces the history of Red-Black unity within the context of US settler colonialism
and is presented in two parts. Here is the first and the second will be published in Zanj …