Gut microbiome in men with pelvic pain, zebrafish stomach motility and bacterial competition, microbiomes of indoor environments, and the Microbial Olympics.
Human gut microbiome
Analysis of Gut Microbiome Reveals Significant Differences between Men with Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome and Controls – Daniel A. Shoskes – Journal of Urology
Press: Gut Microbiome Diversity Lower in Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome – Medical Xpress
Animal and bioreactor experiments
Host Gut Motility Promotes Competitive Exclusion within a Model Intestinal Microbiota – Travis J Wiles – PLOS Biology
Press: Real-time imaging of fish gut ties bacterial competition to gut movements – Science Daily
Microbial Communities are Well Adapted to Disturbances in Energy Input – Nuria Fernandez-Gonzalez – bioRxiv
Built environment microbiome
What Have We Learned about the Microbiomes of Indoor Environments? – Brent Stephens – mSystems
Bioinformatics
Cloud Computing in Bioinformatics: current solutions and challenges – Barbara Calabrese – PeerJ preprint
More microbiology
Discovery of a sesamin-metabolizing microorganism and a new enzyme – Takuto Kumano – PNAS
Microbes in the news
The Microbial Olympics 2016 – Michaeline B. Nelson – Nature Microbiology
New method improves accuracy of microbiome measurement – University of Minnesota
How To Control Eczema? With Fierce Bacterial Competition – Daniel Soo – Asian Scientist
How Miraculous Microbes Help Us Evolve Better, Faster, Stronger – Ed Yong – Smithsonian
Could this household chemical mess with your body’s microbiome? – Brian Mastroianni – CBS News
Research team uses nanoparticles to break up plaque and prevent cavities – Katherine Unger Baillie
This smells promising: Nasal bacteria pump out a new antibiotic that kills MRSA – Anna Vlasits – STAT News