Gut microbiota composition is associated with stool consistency, sequencing the lung microbiome, and the importance of purses as fomites.
Events
Tuesday evening: The Microbiome: An Alien Organ Within the Human Body – OMSI Science Pub (18 August 2015), Portland, OR
Human respiratory microbiome
Integrating microbial and host transcriptomics to characterize asthma-associated microbial communities – Eduardo Castro-Nallar – BMC Medical Genomics
Editorial to the Sze article : Outside In: Sequencing the Lung Microbiome – Michael J. Cox – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Human gut microbiome
Gut microbiota composition associated with stool consistency – E F Tigchelaar – Gut
Review: The role for gut permeability in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes – a solid or leaky concept? – Xia Li – Pediatric Diabetes
Animal microbiome
Buccal swabbing as a non-invasive method to determine bacterial, archaeal, and eukaryotic microbial community structure in the rumen – Sandra Kittelmann – Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Olive Husk Compost Improves the Quality of Intensively Cultivated Agricultural Soils – María Teresa Moreno – Land Degradation & Development
Climate Change and Physical Disturbance Manipulations Result in Distinct Biological Soil Crust Communities – Blaire Steven – Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Built environment microbiology
A study to investigate the importance of purses as fomites – Susheela D Biranjia-Hurdoyal – Advanced Biomedical Research
More microbiology
Review: Diagnostics and Discovery in Viral Central Nervous System Infections – Walter Ian Lipkin – Brain Pathology
(Meta)genomics
Getting the genome in shape: the formation of loops, domains and compartments – Britta AM Bouwman – Genome Biology
Microbes in the news
Bug-killing book pages clean murky drinking water: pages can be torn out to filter drinking water – Jonathan Webb – BBC
A geneticist says any new parent should ‘roll their child on floor of the New York subway’ — here’s why – Erin Brodwin – Business Insider
Having your rot on! In your compost pile you will find billions and billions of microbes with a voracious appetite for organic matter – Chuck Martin – Midland Daily News
Bacteria in flowers may boost honeybees’ healthy gut microbes: Honeybees were into probiotics way before they were cool, a new study suggests. – Beth Mole – Science News
The curious meeting of two partners: the squid–vibrio symbiosis – Tim Miyashiro – Society for General Microbiology
Horses: Heaves and Tracheal Microbiomes: Is There a Connection? – Erica Larson – The Horse
What’s on the menu? Bacteria – lots of them – Elisa Ung – North Jersey.com
“menus are usually the most bacteria-laden object on a restaurant table”
Oral bacteria: friends and foes of the mouth – Nikki Natividad – Rappler
TB Traces: The mummy museum in Vác, Hungary, has human remains that helped researchers learn more about the origins of tuberculosis in Europe – The Scientist
Bik’s Picks
The relationship between the season of birth and early-onset food allergies in children –
Kajiyo Tanaka – Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
NASA working on gecko-inspired, sticky-footed robot – Chuck Bednar – Red Orbit
Tour de Turtles: The Race to Save the Turtles and Maybe Humans as Well – Dave Randle – Huffington Post
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