Category Archives: Animal microbiome

February 16, 2019

Posted on by

Today’s digest is full of interesting articles about virome and phages, sinonasal microbiome and human milk microbiota. Enjoy weekend reading!

General microbiome

Bacteria and archaea on Earth and their abundance in biofilms – Hans-Curt Flemming – Nature Reviews Microbiology

The Impact of Low-FODMAPs, Gluten-Free, and Ketogenic Diets on Gut Microbiota Modulation in Pathological Conditions – Sofia Reddel – Nutrients

Impact of Gut Microbiota on Host Glycemic Control – Celine Gérard – Frontiers in Endocrinology

Intestinal Microbiota as a Host Defense Mechanism to Infectious Threats – Simona Iacob – Frontiers in Microbiology

Pregnancy and early life

Composition and Variation of the Human Milk Microbiota Are Influenced by Maternal and Early-Life Factors – Shirin Mossavi – Cell Host and Microbe

Human microbiome

Gut microbiota diversity associates with cardiorespiratory fitness in post-primary treatment breast cancer survivors – Stephen J. Carter – Experimental Physiology

Alterations in fecal short-chain fatty acids in patients with irritable bowel syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis – Qinghua Sun – Medicine

Mucosa-associated microbiota drives pathogenic functions in IBD-derived intestinal iNKT cells – Claudia Burrello – Life Science Alliance

The international sinonasal microbiome study (ISMS): a multi-centre, international characterization of sinonasal bacterial ecology – Sathish Paramasivan – BioRxiv

Microbiotyping the sinonasal microbiome – Ahmed Bassiouni – BioRxiv

Prevotella copri in individuals at risk for rheumatoid arthritis – Deshire Alpizar-Rodriguez – Annals of Rheumatic Diseases

Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis Is Not Independently Associated With Neurocognitive Impairment in People Living With HIV – Fengdi Zhang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal experiments

Gut microbiota signatures and lipids metabolism profiles by exposure to polyene phosphatidylcholine – Haining Yu – Biofactors

Exploring the Fecal Microbial Composition and Metagenomic Functional Capacities Associated With Feed Efficiency in Commercial DLY Pigs – Jianping Quan – Frontiers in Microbiology

Plant root soil microbiome

Successive phytoextraction alters ammonia oxidation and associated microbial communities in heavy metal contaminated agricultural soils – Jipeng Luo – Science of The Total Environment

Water microbiome and extremophiles

Low concentrations of copper oxide nanoparticles alter microbial community structure and function of sediment biofilms – Lingzhan Miao – Science of the Total Environment

Characterizing the microbiome in petroleum reservoir flooded by different water sources – Xiaotong Wang – Science of the Total Environment

Baseline characterisation of aerobic hydrocarbon degrading microbial communities in deep‐sea sediments of the Great Australian Bight, Australia – Jodie van de Kamp – Environmental Microbiology

Viruses and phages

Expansion of Bacteriophages Is Linked to Aggravated Intestinal Inflammation and Colitis – Lasha Gogokhia – Cell Host and Microbe

Virome Diversity Correlates with Intestinal Microbiome Diversity in Adult Monozygotic Twins – J. Leonardo Moreno-Gallego – Cell Host and Microbe

Bacteriophages of the Human Gut: The “Known Unknown” of the Microbiome – Andrey N. Shkoporov – Cell Host and Microbe

Non-microbiology picks

Function and mechanisms of enteroendocrine cells and gut hormones in metabolism – Fiona M. Gribble – Nature Reviews Endocrinology

 

Advertisements

February 14, 2019

Posted on by

If you are feeling butterflies in your stomach today, it might not be a gut microbiome imbalance – you might’ve caught the love bug! Happy Valentines Day!  Today’s digest features some human gut/FMT studies, a few animal gut biome studies and a couple probiotic publications.  Enjoy!

General microbiome

The next step towards anticancer microbiota therapeutics – Ursula Hofer – Nature Reviews [letter]

Expanding diversity of the human microbiome – Andrea Du Toit – Nature Reviews [in brief]

FMT in the clinic – Ashley York – Nature Reviews [research highlight]

Human respiratory microbiome

Nasopharyngeal Microbiota in Children With Invasive Pneumococcal Disease: Identification of Bacteria With Potential Disease-Promoting and Protective Effects – Anny Camelo-Castillo – Frontiers in Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

Correction: 16S rRNA gene sequencing and healthy reference ranges for 28 clinically relevant microbial taxa from the human gut microbiome – Daniel E. Almonacid – PLoS One

[pre -print] The Human Nickel Microbiome and its relationship to Allergy and Overweight in Women – Elena Angela Lusi – bioRxiv

The Relationship between Platelet Count and Host Gut Microbiota: A Population-Based Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study – Hee-Yong Yoon – Journal of Clinical Medicine

Data-driven multiple-level analysis of gut-microbiome-immune-joint interactions in rheumatoid arthritis – QuanQiu Wang – BMC Genomics

Metaproteomics reveals persistent and phylum-redundant metabolic functional stability in adult human gut microbiomes of Crohn’s remission patients despite temporal variations in microbial taxa, genomes, and proteomes – J. Alfredo Blakeley-Ruiz – BMC Microbiome

Role of the Gut Microbiome in Autism Spectrum Disorders – Joby Pulikkan – Reviews on Biomarker Studies in Psychiatric and Neurodegenerative Disorders

Faecal microbiota transplantation in Australia: bogged down in regulatory uncertainty – Samuel P. Costello – Internal Medicine Journal

Animal experiments

Characterization of oral microbiota in marmosets: Feasibility of using the marmoset as a human oral disease model – Sachiko Takehara – PLoS One

The Effect of Multispecies Probiotic Supplementation on Iron Status in Rats – Katazyna Skrypnik – Biological Trace Element Research

Microbial Diversity and Organic Acid Production of Guinea Pig Faecal Samples – Susakul Palakawong Na Ayudthaya – Current Microbiology

Animal microbiome

A Diverse Microbial Community Supports Larval Development and Survivorship of the Asian Tiger Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) – Nicholas V Travanty – Journal of Medical Entomology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Belowground biota responses to maize biochar addition to the soil of a Mediterranean vineyard – Pilar Andrés – Science of The Total Environment

A metagenomic survey of soil microbial communities along a rehabilitation chronosequence after iron ore mining – Markus Gastauer – Scientific Data

Probiotics / prebiotics

Infant Complementary Feeding of Prebiotics for the Microbiome and Immunity – Starin McKeen – Nutrients

Techniques

Axiom Microbiome Array, the next generation microarray for high-throughput pathogen and microbiome analysis – James B. Thissen – PLoS One

Microbes in the news

Tube pollution: Could bacteria create clean air on the London Underground?

Ed’s non-microbiology picks

Adjunctive vitamin D in tuberculosis treatment: meta-analysis of individual participant data – David A. Jolliffe – European Respiratory Journal

Physical activity protects against depression

Want Healthier Eating Habits? Start with a workout

GMO Cassava Can Provide Iron, Zinc To Malnourished African Children

February 8, 2019

Posted on by

Happy Friday! Today’s digest includes the sea cucumber gut microbiome, bacterial diversity of volcano steam vents, and the impacts of arsenic and antimony on microbes in river sediment. Enjoy!

Human gut microbiome

Use of shotgun metagenomics for the identification of protozoa in the gut microbiota of healthy individuals from worldwide populations with various industrialization levels – Lokmer – PLoS ONE

Age-associated Impairment of the Mucus Barrier Function is Associated with Profound Changes in Microbiota and Immunity – Sovran – Scientific Reports

A single alcohol binge impacts on neutrophil function without changes in gut barrier function and gut microbiome composition in healthy volunteers – Stadlbauer – PLoS ONE

Animal experiments

TGFβ/BMP immune signaling affects abundance and function of C. elegans gut commensals – Berg – Nature Communications

Animal microbiome

Distinct microbiotas of anatomical gut regions display idiosyncratic seasonal variation in an avian folivore – Drovetski – Animal Microbiome

Characterization of the intestinal microbiota of the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima – Pagán-Jiménez – PLoS ONE

Dynamic distribution of gallbladder microbiota in rabbit at different ages and health states – Xing – PLoS ONE

Dietary-induced modulation of the hindgut microbiota is related to behavioral responses during stressful events in horses – Destrez – Physiology & Behavior

Review: Host-Microbe Coevolution: Applying Evidence from Model Systems to Complex Marine Invertebrate Holobionts – O’Brien – mBio

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Environmental filtering drives distinct continental atlases of soil archaea between dryland and wetland agricultural ecosystems – Jiao – Microbiome

The occurrence of potato common scab correlates with the community composition and function of the geocaulosphere soil microbiome – Shi -Microbiome

Enterobacteriaceae dominate the core microbiome and contribute to the resistome of arugula (Eruca sativa Mill.) – Cernava – Microbiome

Unlocking a high bacterial diversity in the coralloid root microbiome from the cycad genus Dioon – Suárez-Moo – PLoS ONE

Characterization of iron-metabolizing communities in soils contaminated by acid mine drainage from an abandoned coal mine in Southwest China – Gao – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Water and extremophile microbiome

Impacts of Arsenic and Antimony Co-Contamination on Sedimentary Microbial Communities in Rivers with Different Pollution Gradients – Sun – Microbial Ecology

The bacterial diversity on steam vents from Paricutín and Sapichu volcanoes – Souza Brito – Extremophiles

Food microbiology

Spent coffee grounds extract rich in manooligosaccharides promote a healthier gut microbial community in a dose dependent manner – Pérez-Burillo – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Impact of routine sanitation on the microbiomes in a fresh produce processing facility – Gu – International Journal of Food Microbiology

February 1, 2019

Posted on by

Today’s digest is quite diverse: the respiratory microbiome networks in cystic fibrosis patients, ketogenic diet effects on the gut microbiota in children with severe epilepsy, and insect-associated Streptomyces (spoiler: inhibit antimicrobial-resistant pathogens more than soil Streptomyces). Happy reading!

General microbiome

Minireview: The signatures of microorganisms and of human and environmental biomes can now be used to provide evidence in legal cases – A H Bishop – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Transforming medicine with the microbiome – Niv Zmora – Science Translational Medicine

Gut microbiome

Gut intraepithelial T cells calibrate metabolism and accelerate cardiovascular disease – Shun He – Nature

*The ketogenic diet influences taxonomic and functional composition of the gut microbiota in children with severe epilepsy – Marie Lindefeldt – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Vaginal microbiome

Association between vaginal washing and vaginal bacterial concentrations – Michelle C. Sabo – PlosOne

Skin microbiome

Investigation of the Skin Microbiome: Swabs vs Biopsies – S. Prast‐Nielsen – British Journal of Dermatology

Oral microbiome

Carbonic Anhydrase 6 Gene Variation influences Oral Microbiota Composition and Caries Risk in Swedish adolescents – A. Esberg – Scientific Reports

Respiratory microbiome

*Microbiome networks and change-point analysis reveal key community changes associated with cystic fibrosis pulmonary exacerbations – Mehdi Layeghifard – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Plant/root/soil microbiome

Effects of long-term fertilization on soil organic carbon mineralization and microbial community structure – Zhen Guo – PlosOne

Water microbiome

Functional screening for triclosan resistance in a wastewater metagenome and isolates of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus spp. from a large Canadian healthcare region – Andrew Camero – PlosOne

Animal experiments

Cream Cheese-Derived Lactococcus chungangensis CAU 28 Modulates the Gut Microbiota and Alleviates Atopic Dermatitis in BALB/c Mice – Jong-Hwa Kim – Scientific Reports

Animal Microbiome

*The antimicrobial potential of Streptomyces from insect microbiomes – Marc G. Chevrette – Nature Communications

January 31, 2019

Posted on by

Today’s digest covers articles describing sphingolipids in host-microbiome interaction, unique microbiome and metabolome of Indian population, selection and stabilization of soil microbiome and effect of probiotics on early sepsis in patients and immune response in children. Enjoy reading!

General microbiome

Metabolic Modeling of Human Gut Microbiota on a Genome Scale: An Overview – Partho Sen – Metabolites

Altered composition and function of intestinal microbiota in autism spectrum disorders: a systematic review – Feitong Liu – Translational Psychiatry

Sphingolipids in host–microbial interactions – Stacey L. Heaver – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Pregnancy and early life

Mixed Viral-Bacterial Infections and Their Effects on Gut Microbiota and Clinical Illnesses in Children – Shilu Mathew – Scientific Reports

Pathways linking caesarean delivery to early health in a dual burden context: Immune development and the gut microbiome in infants and children from Galápagos, Ecuador – Amanda L. Thompson – American Journal of Human Biology

Human gut microbiome

The vagino-cervical microbiome as a woman’s life history – Zhuye Jie – BioRxiv

Dynamics of Human Gut Microbiota and Short-Chain Fatty Acids in Response to Dietary Interventions with Three Fermentable Fibers – Nielson T. Baxter – mBio

The unique composition of Indian gut microbiome, gene catalogue and associated faecal metabolome deciphered using multi-omics approaches – D.B. Dhakan – Gigascience

Animal experiments

Oral neonatal antibiotic treatment perturbs gut microbiota and aggravates central nervous system autoimmunity in Dark Agouti rats – Suzana Stanisavljević – Scientific Reports

Intestinal epithelial N-acylphosphatidylethanolamine phospholipase D links dietary fat to metabolic adaptations in obesity and steatosis – Amandine Everard – Nature Communications

Mutual interplay between IL-17–producing γδT cells and microbiota orchestrates oral mucosal homeostasis – Anneke Wilharm – PNAS

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Selection, succession and stabilization of soil microbial consortia – Elias K. Zegeye – BioRxiv

Comparison of the bacterial and methanotrophic diversities between an Italian paddy field and its neighboring meadow – Mohammad Ghashghavi – BioRxiv

Quality of Irrigation Water Affects Soil Functionality and Bacterial Community Stability in Response to Heat Disturbance – Sammy Frenk – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Water and extremophiles microbiome

Archaea dominate the microbial community in an ecosystem with low-to-moderate temperature and extreme acidity – Aleksei A. Korzhenkov – Microbiome

Antibiotic disturbance affects aquatic microbial community composition and foodweb interactions but not community resilience – Ester M. Eckert – Molecular Ecology

 Phages and viruses

Megaphages infect Prevotella and variants are widespread in gut microbiomes – Audra E. Devoto – Nature Microbiology

Probiotics / prebiotics

Dysbiosis in early sepsis can be modulated by a multispecies probiotic: a randomised controlled pilot trial – V. Stadlbauer – Beneficial Microbes

Lactobacillus plantarum IS-10506 supplementation increases faecal sIgA and immune response in children younger than two years – P.D. Kusumo – Beneficial Microbes

Supplementation with Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens ZW3 from Tibetan Kefir improves depression-like behavior in stressed mice by modulating the gut microbiota – Ye Sun – Food and Function

Non-microbiology picks

Identification of Enteroendocrine Regulators by Real-Time Single-Cell Differentiation Mapping – Helmuth Gehart – Cell

January 28, 2019

Posted on by

Human and General Microbiome

Book Chapter: Necrotizing Enterocolitis and the Preterm Infant Microbiome. – Jillian R. Baranowski – Part of the Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology book series

Book Chapter: Shaping Microbiota During the First 1000 Days of Life. – Marta Selma-Royo – Part of the Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology book series

Book Chapter: Targeting Food Allergy with Probiotics. – Lorella Paparo – Part of the Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology book series

Review: The relation of the vaginal microbiota to early pregnancy development during In Vitro Fertilization treatment-A meta-analysis. – M. Singer – Journal of Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction

Review: Neuropeptides in the microbiota-brain axis and feeding behavior in autism spectrum disorder. – Sergueï O.Fetissov – Nutrition (Elsevier)

Review: Gut microbiome and cancer immunotherapy. – Weina Li – Cancer Letters

Review: The Microbiome-Host Interaction as a Potential Driver of Anastomotic Leak. – Victoria M. Gershuni – Current Gastroenterology Reports

Review: The links between the gut microbiome and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). – Zahra Safari – Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Review: The role of chronic kidney disease-associated dysbiosis in cardiovascular disease.  – Mark A Bryniarski – Experimental Biology and Medicine

Review: The Interplay between Immunity and Microbiota at Intestinal Immunological Niche: The Case of Cancer. – Rossella Cianci – International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Spotlight: Ethnicity-Influenced Microbiota: A Future Healthcare Perspective. – Madhusmita Dehingia – Trends in Microbiology

Exploration of microbiota targets for major depressive disorder and mood related traits. – Yu-Chu Ella Chung – Journal of Psychiatric Research

Altered fecal bacterial composition correlates with disease activity in inflammatory bowel disease and the extent of IL8 induction. – Farnaz Heidarian – Current Research in Translational Medicine

Metagenome – Inferred bacterial replication rates in cystic fibrosis airways. – Katarzyna Pienkowska – Journal of Cystic Fibrosis

Among older adults, age-related changes in the stool microbiome differ by HIV-1 serostatus. – Jay Liu – EBioMedicine

Deep sequencing reveals specific bacterial signatures in the subgingival microbiota of healthy subjects. – Eri Ikeda – Clinical Oral Investigations

Close social relationships correlate with human gut microbiota composition. – Kimberly A. Dill-McFarland – Scientific Reports

The gut microbiota heterogeneity and assembly changes associated with the IBD. – Yang Sun – Scientific Reports

The respiratory microbiota: new insights into pulmonary tuberculosis. – Setegn Eshetie – BMC Infectious Diseases

 

Faecal Transplants

Letter to the Editor: Faecal microbiota transplant for eradication of multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: a lesson in applying best practice? – Benjamin H. Mullish – Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Clinical characteristic and fecal microbiota responses to probiotic or antidepressant in patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome with depression comorbidity: a pilot study. – Lu Zhang – Chinese Medical Journal

Multi-session fecal microbiota transplantation using colonoscopy has favorable outcomes for the treatment of steroid-dependent ulcerative colitis. – Young-Seok Cho – Intestinal Research

 

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Effect of Probiotic Use on Adverse Events in Adult Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: a Retrospective Cohort Study. – Maria Pina Dore – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Identification of the novel role of butyrate as AhR ligand in human intestinal epithelial cells. – Ludovica Marinelli – Scientific Reports

Bifidobacterium bifidum ATCC 15696 and Bifidobacterium breve 24b metabolic interaction based on 2′-O-fucosyl-lactose studied in steady-state cultures in a Freter-style chemostat. – Manuela Centanni – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Oral supplements of combined fructo- and xylo-oligosaccharides during perinatal period significantly offsets acrylamide-induced oxidative impairments and neurotoxicity in rats. – Muralidhara Krishna – Journal Of Physiology And Pharmacology

Impact of Grain Sorghum Polyphenols on Microbiota of Normal Weight and Overweight/Obese Subjects during In Vitro Fecal Fermentation. – Danielle Ashley – Nutrients

Geographical location specific composition of cultured microbiota and Lactobacillus occurrence in human breast milk in China. – Mengfan Ding – Food & Function

 

Animal Microbiome

Review: The Road Not Taken: The Rumen Microbiome, Functional Groups, and Community States. – Sarah Moraïs – Trends in Microbiology

Gut microbiota affects development and olfactory behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. – Huili Qiao – Journal of Experimental Biology

Genomic diversity landscape of the honey bee gut microbiota. – Kirsten M. Ellegaard – Nature Communications

Abnormal composition of gut microbiota contributes to delirium-like behaviors after abdominal surgery in mice. – Jie Zhang – Neuroscience and Therapeutics

Functional Interactions between Gut Microbiota Transplantation, Quercetin and High Fat Diet Determine Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Development in Germ-Free Mice. – David Porras – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Metagenomic dissection of the canine gut microbiota: insights into taxonomic, metabolic and nutritional features. – Giulia Alessandri – Environmental Microbiology

 

Environmental Microbiome

Succession Patterns and Physical Niche Partitioning in Microbial Communities from Subsurface Coal Seams. – Silas H.W.Vick – iScience

 

Food Microbiome

Book Chapter: Microbial Ecology of Fermented Vegetables and Non-Alcoholic Drinks and Current Knowledge on Their Impact on Human Health. – Laura Lavefve – Advances in Food and Nutrition Research

 

Methodologies

Review: A crash course in sequencing for a microbiologist. – Aleksandra Kozińska – Journal of Applied Genetics

Review: The Quest for Novel Antimicrobial Compounds: Emerging Trends in Research, Development, and Technologies. – Pavan K. Mantravadi – Antibiotics

Effects of the long-term storage of human fecal microbiota samples collected in RNAlater. – Julien Tap – Scientific Reports

A sensitive GC/MS detection method for analyzing microbial metabolites short chain fatty acids in fecal and serum samples. – Shuming Zhang – Talanta

January 24, 2019

Posted on by

Today’s digest covers interesting reviews on microbiome and microbial metabolites, and research articles showing bacteria in meconium, how host and microbial factors affect host physiology and mechanistic insight into role of microbiota in alleviation of intestinal inflammation.

General microbiome

Review: Role of the microbiome in human development – Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello – Gut

Review: The role of the intestinal microbiota in uremic solute accumulation: a focus on sulfur compounds – Alessandra F. Perna – Journal of Nephrology

Review: Gut microbial metabolites in obesity, NAFLD and T2DM – Emanuel E. Canfora – Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Pregnancy and early life

Characterisation of the bacterial microbiome in first‐pass meconium using propidium monoazide (PMA) to exclude non‐viable bacterial DNA – Lisa F. Stinson – Letters in Applied Microbiology

Perinatal antibiotics alter preterm infant EEG and neurobehavior in the Family Nurture Intervention trial – Morgan R. Firestein – Developmental Psychobiology

Altered gut microbiota and short chain fatty acids in Chinese children with autism spectrum disorder – Simeng Liu – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiota density influences host physiology and is shaped by host and microbial factors – Eduardo J. Contijoch – Elife

The Crohn’s disease polymorphism, ATG16L1 T300A, alters the gut microbiota and enhances the local Th1/Th17 response – Sydney Lavoie – Elife

Alterations in the intestinal microbiota of patients with severe and active Graves’ orbitopathy: a cross-sectional study – T. T. Shi – Journal of Endocrinological Investigation

Fecal microbiota transplantation for treatment of recurrent C. difficile infection: An updated randomized controlled trial meta-analysis – Wenjia Hui – PlosOne

Evolutionary dynamics of bacteria in the gut microbiome within and across hosts – Nandita R. Garud – PlosBiology

MicroRNA-Mediated Tumor–Microbiota Metabolic Interactions in Colorectal Cancer – Ce Yuan – DNA and Cell Biology

Modulation of the Gut Microbiota by Resistant Starch as a Treatment of Chronic Kidney Diseases: Evidence of Efficacy and Mechanistic Insights – Matthew Snelson – Advances in Nutrition

Animal experiments

Microbiota fermentation-NLRP3 axis shapes the impact of dietary fibres on intestinal inflammation – Vishal Singh – Gut

A high linoleic acid diet exacerbates metabolic responses and gut microbiota dysbiosis in obese rats with diabetes mellitus – Hsiu-Chuan Lee – Food and Function

Gut microbiota profiling with differential tolerance against the reduced dietary fibre level in rabbit – Shi-Yi Chen – Scientific Reports

Novel strains of Bacteroides fragilis and Bacteroides ovatus alleviate the LPS-induced inflammation in mice – Huizi Tan – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Consistency in microbiomes in cultures of Alexandrium species isolated from brackish and marine waters – Eva Sörenson – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Probiotics / prebiotics

Review: Beneficial Effects of Probiotic Consumption on the Immune System – C. Maldonado Galdeano – Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Microbes on the market

Ferring, Rebiotix and Karolinska Institutet Extend Collaboration to Research Next Generation of Microbiome Treatments – Microbiome Times

Non-microbiology picks

Those with inadequate access to food likely to suffer from obesity – Science Daily