General human microbiome

Mapping the gut microbial structural variations in healthy aging within the Chinese population – Shen et al. Cell Reports

Association between butyrate-producing gut bacteria and the risk of infectious disease hospitalisation: results from two observational, population-based microbiome studies – Killberg et al. The Lancet Microbe

[Correspondence related to the above article] Reassessing the role of butyrate-producing bacteria in infection risk – Parsanathan. The Lancet Microbe

Microbiome science of human excrement composting – Meilander & Caporaso. ISME

Microbiota-derived lysophosphatidylcholine alleviates Alzheimer’s disease pathology via suppressing ferroptosis – Zha et al. Cell Metabolism

Probiotics

Probiotics and their metabolite spermidine enhance IFN-γ+CD4+ T cell immunity to inhibit hepatitis B virus – Wang et al. Cell Reports Medicine

Virome

The phageome of patients with ulcerative colitis treated with donor fecal microbiota reveals markers associated with disease remission – Majzoub et al. Nature Communications

Chronic exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons alters skin virome composition and virus–host interactions – Du et al. ISME

Bioinformatics & metagenomics

mbDriver: identifying driver microbes in microbial communities based on time-series microbiome data – Tan et al. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 

AMRColab – a user-friendly antimicrobial resistance detection and visualization tool – Lam et al. Microbial Genomics

Seven-year performance of a clinical metagenomic next-generation sequencing test for diagnosis of central nervous system infections – Benoit et al. Nature Medicine