Some Bacteria Are Getting New Names – And Not Everyone Is Happy
The Wire,
A bacterial culture. Photo: Michael Schiffer/Unsplash On December 10, the National Centre for Biotechnology Information adopted…
WHO Coronavirus Variant Labels
Forbes,
The World Health Organization has announced new names for Coronavirus variants that are easy to say and remember.
Researchers Propose Automating the Naming of Novel Microbes
The Scientist Magazine,
W hen Mark Pallen and his colleagues began describing the chicken gut microbiome several years ago, they soon identified DNA…
An automated system for generating a million new names for bacteria
Phys.org,
Researchers are discovering thousands of new bacterial species that live with us, on us and even inside us.