General human microbiome

[Review] Examining the healthy human microbiome concept – Joos et a. Nature Reviews Microbiology

Bifidobacteria with indole-3-lactic acid-producing capacity exhibit psychobiotic potential via reducing neuroinflammation – Qian et al. Cell Reports Medicine

Longitudinal analysis of the gut microbiota during anti-PD-1 therapy reveals stable microbial features of response in melanoma patients – Macandog et al. Cell Host & Microbe

Exclusive enteral nutrition initiates individual protective microbiome changes to induce remission in pediatric Crohn’s disease – Hacker et al. Cell Host & Microbe

Identification of gut microbiome features associated with host metabolic health in a large population-based cohort – Keshet & Segal. Nature Communications

Probiotics

Design and reporting of prebiotic and probiotic clinical trials in the context of diet and the gut microbiome – Whelan et al. Nature Microbiology

Virome

Prediction of strain level phage–host interactions across the Escherichia genus using only genomic information – Gaborieau et al. Nature Microbiology

Bioinformatics

BakRep – a searchable large-scale web repository for bacterial genomes, characterizations and metadata – Fenske et al. Microbial Genomics

A long-context language model for deciphering and generating bacteriophage genomes – Shao and Yan. Nature Communications

Non Microbiome Piks

We continue to learn more about the mechanisms underpinning long COVID in recent weeks 

Blood transcriptomic analyses do not support SARS-CoV-2 persistence in patients with post-COVID-19 condition with chronic fatigue syndrome – Rahmati et al. The Lancet Microbe

Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 cardiovascular symptoms are associated with trace-level cytokines that affect cardiomyocyte function – Sinclair et al. Nature Microbiology