By Jonathan Eisen Saw this tweet: Then I looked at the Pubmed Central version of the paper and it was the same. So I wnet and found the arXiv version of the paper and it looked correct. So apparently, PLOS One somehow replaced “nonmember” with Brutal. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: The…
By Jonathan Eisen A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the Future of Genomic Medicine 2015 (aka #FOGM15) meeting. The talk seemed to go over well. I talked right after Martin Blaser in a session on “The Microbiome”. I posted my slides and then a video of my Read Full Article Here For…
By Jonathan Eisen Just posting a wrap up of posts on microBEnet (where I blog frequently as do many other folks that work on something related to microbial ecology, the built environment, or the intersection of the two). microBEnet is really becoming a central place to find out what is going Read Full Article Here…
By Jonathan Eisen So I saw this Tweet earlier today Will be an excellent symposium! Register here @UCPlantBreeding http://t.co/Nd86UAr3hJ — Gena Hoffman (@GenaEHoffman) March 24, 2015And that sounded very interesting. So I clicked on the link to check out the Plant Breeding for Food Security: The Global Impact of Plant Read Full Article Here For…
By Jonathan Eisen So I saw some Tweets today that caught my attention, discussion news stories about “ancient” bacteria being missing from some human’s gut microbiomes: Uhh? What is wrong with this? Well, there are no “ancient” bacteria around today. They are all modern. I am not even sure what they Read Full Article Here…
By Jonathan Eisen Some Saturday fun … [View the story “The #ChuckNorrisMicrobiome will get you” on Storify] ——– This is from the “Tree of Life Blog” of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter. Read Full Article Here For more…
By Jonathan Eisen Well this article by Dr. Raphael Kellman has just lots of overstatements about the microbiome: Why The Microbiome Is Your Key To Glowing Skin & Healthy Weight For example, he writes:Have you and your boyfriend or girlfriend ever gone out for a feast of delightfully unhealthy proportions only to then Read Full…
By Jonathan Eisen Well, just got to reading this: Big Idea 2015: Medicine, Wellbeing, and the Microbiome | Deepak Chopra MD. Yes, it was from December 2014 but I could not get up to reading it then because I saw some of the comments online about it and it seemed off. Read Full Article Here…
By Jonathan Eisen Some news stories about a new paper claiming evidence for horizontal gene transfer into humans and other chordates. I got asked by many reporters about it and some used some of my email comments in their articles. See for example Horizontal Gene Transfer a Hallmark of Animal Genomes? in The Read Full…
By Jonathan Eisen Nice article in Outside Magazine by David Despain: Should You Be Taking Probiotics? | Performance Plate | OutsideOnline.com. The article has comments from me, Peter Turnbaugh and Ellen Silbergeld. The article discusses some of the overhyped claims about probiotics and athletic performance and even mentions my <a target="_blank" Read Full Article Here…