Environmental Microbiome News Today

Led by Maurizio Porfiri, NYU Tandon Institute Professor and Director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), a team of researchers collected and analyzed data from 189 mass shootings between 1966 and 2021, and found that fame seekers - as opposed to those predominantly motivated by personal grievance or revenge, for example – planned their crimes around the novelty of the location and targets.

Researchers found that samples from beehives could reveal important environmental differences between cities, and even neighborhoods.

Exposure to diverse microbes is important for heath, but how can we measure it? In urban environments, bees might have the microbiome answer.

The researchers found some unexpected materials in the hives, alongside less surprising results.

A small study on honeybee hives in Tokyo, Venice, Sydney, and Melbourne uncovered a many microbial secrets in the hives debris.

DNA found in honeybee hives show that each city has a unique microbiome—and that could have big implications for human health.

From New York to Tokyo, Melbourne to Venice – honeybee hives have revealed the unique genetic signatures of cities, even providing insights into human health.

Urban honeybees could hold the key to unlocking insights into the microbiomes of cities around the world, providing valuable information about both hive and human health

Urban honey bees could be used to gain insight into the microbiome of the cities in which they forage, which can potentially provide information on both hive and human health

New study reveals that the bacterial communities that live in subarctic caves, which can give rise to products of particular interest to medicine and industry,