Dr. Director & Duflo: Dogs Dropping Doody Do Digestive DNA Data Duty

Posted on April 7, 2017April 9, 2017

OK I could not help it with the alliteration, since I just had to top the headline in the NY Times. Source: Dogs Do Their Duty for Science – The New York Times The article is about the work of Jane Carlton (full disclosure – I used to work with her at TIGR) and their …

Don’t diss microbial eukaryotes in human gut by calling them all parasitesÂ

By Jonathan Eisen Posted in .Featured Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)

Posted on August 18, 2015August 21, 2015

There is an interesting paper from Julius LukeÅ¡ et al. in PLOS Pathogens that is worth looking at for anyone who works on microbial diversity: PLOS Pathogens: Are Human Intestinal Eukaryotes Beneficial or Commensals? They basically argue (reasonably I think) that the roles of microbial eukaryotes in the human gut have been excessively interpreted as parasitic and that …