Engineered bacteria are widely used in cancer treatment because live facultative/obligate
anaerobes can selectively proliferate at tumor sites and reach hypoxic regions, thereby …

Covering: January to December 2017 This review covers the literature published in 2017 for
marine natural products (MNPs), with 740 citations (723 for the period January to December …

The recognition that all macroorganisms live in symbiotic association with microbial
communities has opened up a new field in biology. Animals, plants, and algae are now …

Assembly-line polyketide synthases (PKSs) are among the most complex protein
machineries known in nature, responsible for the biosynthesis of numerous compounds …

Label-free molecular imaging techniques such as matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization
mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI-MSI) enable the direct and simultaneous map** of …

From protists to humans, all animals and plants are inhabited by microbial organisms. There
is an increasing appreciation that these resident microbes influence the fitness of their plant …

Spatial metabolomics describes the location and chemistry of small molecules involved in
metabolic phenotypes, defence molecules and chemical interactions in natural communities …

The marine environment has remained a source of novel biological molecules with
diversified applications. The ecological and biological diversity, along with a unique physical …

Marine sponges often host diverse and species-specific communities of microorganisms that
are critical for host health. Previous functional genomic investigations of the sponge …

Sponges underpin the productivity of coral reefs, yet few of their microbial symbionts have
been functionally characterised. Here we present an analysis of~ 1200 metagenome …