Lost Colonies
Next-generation sequencing has identified scores of new microorganisms, but getting even abundant bacterial species to grow in the…
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Cultural Riches
New devices that physically separate bacterial cellsgiving slower-growing species a fighting chancebutstill allow the cells to com…
Gut Bacteria Linked to Asthma Risk
Babies with low levels of four types of common gut bacteria at 3 months of age tend to develop early signs of asthma by their firs…
Microbiome Meals
The mammalian gut microbiome is a teeming and dynamic community that adapts quickly to environmental shifts in the host. Researche…
Microbesity
Adecade ago, gut microbiologist and genomicistJeffrey Gordons postdoc Fredrik Bckhed at Washington University in St. Louis made a …
Capsule
The Psychology of Overeating: Food and the Culture of Consumerism Kima CargillBloomsbury Academic, October 2015Oof. Youve done it …
The Evolution on Islamic Terrorism
In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S., the threat of militant Islamic terrorism -- rooted in the Middle …
The roots of terrorism
A CURSORY analysis of the START Global Terrorism Database reveals that over the past decade, Pakistan has had the highest number o…
CHRONOLOGY OF COVERAGE
NOV. 3, 2015 Op-Ed article by Micah Lakin Avni underscores degree to which Facebook, Twitter and other social media are more impor…
The Grave New World: Terrorism in the 21st Century
The first decade of the 21st century was dominated by terror and terrorists. No one man was responsible although the pre-eminent f…
