General microbiome

A naturally isolated symbiotic bacterium suppresses flavivirus transmission by Aedes mosquitoes – Science 

Gut Microbiome

Gut microbial metabolism of 5-aminosalicylic acid in inflammatory bowel disease – Gut

Smoking-related Lactobacillus and immune cell infiltration in colorectal cancer: evidence from a population-based study – Gut. 

Gut microbiota dysbiosis contributes to depression-like behaviors via hippocampal NLRP3-mediated neuroinflammation in a postpartum depression mouse model – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Respiratory microbiome

Outlook/Review – Exploring the lung microbiome’s role in disease – Nature

Longitudinal dynamics of farmer and livestock nasal and faecal microbiomes and resistomes – Nature Microbiology

Probiotics

Multi-strain probiotics ameliorate Alzheimer’s-like cognitive impairment and pathological changes through the AKT/GSK-3β pathway in senescence-accelerated mouse prone 8 mice – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Lactococcus lactis HkyuLL 10 suppresses colorectal tumourigenesis and restores gut microbiota through its generated alpha-mannosidase – Gut

Virome

Phage predation, disease severity, and pathogen genetic diversity in cholera patients – Science

Single-cell RNA-seq of the rare virosphere reveals the native hosts of giant viruses in the marine environment – Nature Microbiology 

Deep metagenomic characterization of the gut virome in pregnant women with preeclampsia – mSphere 

Bioinformatics

A metagenomics pipeline reveals insertion sequence-driven evolution of the microbiota – Cell Host & Microbe 

Benchmarking bioinformatic virus identification tools using real-world metagenomic data across biomes – Genome Biology

Scoary2: rapid association of phenotypic multi-omics data with microbial pan-genomes – Genome Biology

Evaluating and improving the representation of bacterial contents in long-read metagenome assemblies – Genome Biology

Non Microbiome Pick

Refining the impact of genetic evidence on clinical success – Nature