A new PreMiEr study finds that surface material properties have minimal effect on early bacterial attachment in built environments, suggesting that microbial community strategies may be more effective than surface engineering for controlling biofilms.
A new PreMiEr study finds that the oral bacterium Streptococcus mutans evolves in dramatically different ways under space-like conditions, with findings relevant to microbial control in spacecraft and other closed environments.
A new PreMiEr study interviews eastern North Carolina residents about living with household mold and finds cautious but conditional openness to microbiome engineering as a solution, contingent on safety evidence and transparent oversight.
A new PreMiEr meta-analysis finds that complex beta diversity transformations offer no consistent advantage over simpler methods in microbiome machine learning, giving researchers more flexibility in their analytical choices.
PreMiEr researchers have published a new statistical model in BMC Bioinformatics that improves microbiome analysis across paired body sites by capturing cross-site biological dependencies that standard methods miss.
A new GES Center Publications podcast episode covers PreMiEr research on public attitudes toward microbiome engineering as a solution for combating mold in disaster relief shelters.
A new PreMiEr survey of 1,000 U.S. adults finds cautious but real public support for using microbiome engineering to combat mold in disaster relief shelters, with trust and perceived effectiveness as the strongest predictors of acceptance.
A new PreMiEr study finds that two microbial signaling molecules have opposing effects on nitrogen-processing bacteria in wastewater treatment, opening the door to a biologically tunable strategy for improving nitrification efficiency.
PreMiEr researcher Boyuan Chen and his Duke General Robotics Lab have developed an AI framework that turns complex, changing systems into compact, readable equations.
PreMiEr researcher Joseph L. Graves Jr. is among the coauthors of a Nature Genetics paper describing BioDIGS, a collaborative initiative training students at more than 40 institutions in soil microbiome research.
PreMiEr researcher Rodolphe Barrangou of NC State weighs in on a breakthrough gene-editing approach published in Nature that could one day make treatments for rare genetic diseases faster, cheaper, and more widely accessible.
The Hastings Center for Bioethics has named its 2025 Fellows, recognizing 13 outstanding scholars working on urgent issues in health, science, and public policy.