Human breast tissue microbes, foliar bacteria, SAR11 genomes, and a new book about babies growing up too clean.
Human oral microbiome
Oral, Intestinal, and Skin Bacteria in Ventral Hernia Mesh Implants – Odd Langbach – Journal of Oral Microbiology
A novel compound to maintain a healthy oral plaque ecology in vitro – Marleen M. Janus
– Journal of Oral Microbiology
Paper on periodontal disease by computer scientists, but no dentists involved, and no mentioning of ethics approval or informed consent…
Metagenomic Analysis and Features Selection in Human Oral Microbiota Associated with Periodontal Disease – Wen-Pei Chen – The 33rd Workshop on Combinatorial Mathematics and Computation Theory
Human skin/breast tissue microbiology
The Microbiome of Aseptically Collected Human Breast Tissue in Benign and Malignant Disease – Tina J. Hieken – Scientific Reports
Press: Researchers identify breast microbiome/bacterial differences between healthy and cancerous tissue – Medical Xpress
Also contains animal experiments: Transplantation of human skin microbiota in models of atopic dermatitis – Ian A. Myles – JCI Insight
Human gut microbiome
Effects of scFOS on the composition of fecal microbiota and anxiety in patients with irritable bowel syndrome: a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled study – F. Azpiroz – Neurogastroenterology & Motility
Letter: Dyspepsia and the microbiome: time to focus on the small intestine – Laurie Zhong – Gut
Review: Exposure to inorganic arsenic can lead to gut microbe perturbations and hepatocellular carcinoma – Jonathan Choiniere – Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B
Review: Modulation of type 1 and type 2 diabetes risk by the intestinal microbiome –
Alexandra Paun – Pediatric Diabetes
Animal experiments
Pterostilbene-induced changes in gut microbiota composition in relation to obesity – Usune Etxeberria – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research
The skin microbiome in allergen-induced canine atopic dermatitis – Felipe Pierezan – Veterinary Dermatology
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Foliar bacteria and soil fertility mediate seedling performance: a new and cryptic dimension of niche differentiation – Eric A. Griffin – Ecology
DGGE: Effect of karst rocky desertification on soil fungal communities in Southwest China – P.C. Wang – Genetics and Molecular Research
Water and extremophile microbiome
SAR11 bacteria linked to ocean anoxia and nitrogen loss – Despina Tsementzi – Nature
Press: Global warming, a dead zone and surprising bacteria – Phys.org
Sulfate reduction and inorganic carbon assimilation in acidic thermal springs of the Kamchatka peninsula – E. N. Frolov – Microbiology
Book Chapter: Bacterial Diversity of the Boka Kotorska Bay – Sandra Jokanović – The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry
Bioinformatics and metagenomics
An integrated metagenomics pipeline for strain profiling reveals novel patterns of transmission and global biogeography of bacteria – Stephen Nayfach – bioRxiv
Advances in the recovery of haplotypes from the metagenome – Samuel M Nicholls – bioRxiv
Techniques
Virtual microfluidics for digital quantification and single-cell sequencing – Liyi Xu – Nature Methods
Microbial Nanoculture as an Artificial Microniche – Tagbo H. R. Niepa – Scientific Reports
Considerations for optimizing microbiome analysis using a marker gene – Jacobo de la Cuesta-Zuluaga – Frontiers in Nutrition
Microbes in the news
Dirty baby: Just how clean does your child need to be? – Bill Daley – Chicago Tribune
New book: Let Them Eat Dirt. Saving Your Child From an Oversanitized World – B. Brett Finlay and Marie-Claire Arrieta
Cloud computing used to analyze microbiological samples – Tim Sandle – Digital Journal
Bacteria Show Capacity for Rapid, Beneficial Mutations – University of Texas News
Video: Vibrio cholerae swimming in the gut of a live zebrafish – Phys.org
How the microbiome will lead a revolution in the consumerization of personalized medicine and diet – Kobi Gershoni – Tech Crunch
Science, publishing, and career
Scholarly Olympics: How the games have shaped research. A graphical guide to the impact of the Olympics on science – Ramin Skibba – Nature
‘Kudos’ promises to help scientists promote their papers to new audiences
Increasingly popular social-media tool says it can maximize reach and impact of research – Jeffrey Perkel – Nature