Resistant starch diets, mass spectrometry imaging, viruses in coral health and disease, mitochondrial and chloroplast blocking clamps to identify plant-associated microbiomes, vitamin D and the gut, microbes in pores, uBiome Microbiome Impact Grant winner.
Pregnancy and early life
Starter formula enriched in prebiotics and probiotics ensures normal growth of infants and promotes gut health: a randomized clinical trial – Michael Radke – Pediatric Research
Human skin microbiome
The balance of metagenomic elements shapes the skin microbiome in acne and health – Emma Barnard – Scientific Reports
Microbiome of nearly sterile sites
Correspondence: Blood microbiota as a potential non-invasive diagnostic biomarker for liver fibrosis in severely obese patients: Choose carefully – Zongxin Ling – Hepatology
Human gut microbiome
* Diets high in resistant starch increase plasma levels of trimethylamine-N-oxide, a gut microbiome metabolite associated with CVD risk – Nathalie Bergeron – British Journal of Nutrition
Fecal Microbiota Transplant in Severe and Severe-Complicated Clostridium difficile: A Promising Treatment Approach – Monika Fischer – Gut Microbes
Evaluation of clinical safety and beneficial effects of stachyose-enriched α-galacto-oligosaccharides on gut microbiota and bowel function in humans – Ting Li – Food & Function
Low abundance of colonic butyrate-producing bacteria in HIV infection is associated
with microbial translocation and immune activation – Stephanie M. Dillon – AIDS
Meta-analysis: Pretreatment with antibiotics may enhance the efficacy of fecal microbiota transplantation in ulcerative colitis: a meta-analysis – A H Keshteli – Mucosal Immunology
Meta-analysis: Lower Level of Bacteroides in the Gut Microbiota Is Associated with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Meta-Analysis – Yingting Zhou – BioMed Research International
Viewpoint: The Microbiome and Risk for Obesity and Diabetes – Anthony L. Komaroff – JAMA
Review: The Impact of the Gut Microbiota on Humoral Immunity to Pathogens and Vaccination in Early Infancy – Quang N. Nguyen – PLOS Pathogens
Review: Microbiota and prebiotics modulate uremic toxins generation – Laetitia Koppe – Panminerva Medica
Review: Influence of nutrition therapy on the intestinal microbiome – Monika A. Krezaleka
Review: A Possible Role of Intestinal Microbiota in the Pathogenesis of Ankylosing Spondylitis – Lianjun Yang – Int J Mol Sci
Review: Food allergy and the gut – Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
The Gut Microbiome and the Liver, special issue of Seminars in Liver Disease with lots of reviews:
- The Microbiome: What Will the Future Hold? – Howard Paul Monsour
- Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and the Microbiome – Eamonn M. M. Quigley
- The Microbiome and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis – Ahmad H. Ali
- Changes in the Microbiome in Cirrhosis and Relationship to Complications: Hepatic Encephalopathy, Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis, and Sepsis – Jatinder Lachar
- Microbiome–Host Immune System Interactions – Sylwia Smolinska
- The Microbiome and the Liver: The Basics – David W. Victor III
- Studying the Microbiome: “Omics” Made Accessible – Paul W. O’Toole
- The Metabolic Role of the Microbiome: Implications for NAFLD and the Metabolic Syndrome – Eamonn M. M. Quigley
Animal experiments
Western diet induces colonic nitrergic myenteric neuropathy and dysmotility in mice via saturated fatty acid- and LPS-induced TLR4 signaling – François Reichardt – Journal of Physiology
* Vitamin D Signaling through Induction of Paneth Cell Defensins Maintains Gut Microbiota and Improves Metabolic Disorders and Hepatic Steatosis in Animal Models – Danmei Su – Frontiers in Physiology
Animal microbiome
* Review: The role of viruses in coral health and disease – Michael Sweet – Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Diverse Profiles of AI-1 Type Quorum Sensing Molecules in Cultivable Bacteria from the Mangrove (Kandelia obovata) Rhizosphere Environment – Zhi P. Ma – Frontiers in Microbiology
Bioaccumulation of metals in reeds collected from an acid mine drainage contaminated site in winter and spring – Lin Guo – Environmental Technology
* Identifying the plant associated microbiome across aquatic and terrestrial environments: the effects of amplification method on taxa discovery – Sara L. Jackrel – Molecular Ecology Resources
* Microbial competition in porous environments can select against rapid biofilm growth – Katharine Z. Coyte – PNAS
Water microbiome
Local and Regional Diversity Reveals Dispersal Limitation and Drift as Drivers for Groundwater Bacterial Communities from a Fractured Granite Formation – E. D. Beaton – Frontiers in Microbiology
Microbial Community of High Arsenic Groundwater in Agricultural Irrigation Area of Hetao Plain, Inner Mongolia – Yanhong Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology
Disturbance Increases Microbial Community Diversity and Production in Marine Sediments – Pierre E. Galand – Frontiers in Microbiology
Waste and pollution microbiology
Seafood-Processing Sludge Composting: Changes to Microbial Communities and Physico-Chemical Parameters of Static Treatment versus for Turning during the Maturation Stage – Iria Villa – PLOS ONE
Regional synchrony in full-scale activated sludge bioreactors due to deterministic microbial community assembly – James S Griffin – The ISME Journal
Metabolomics
* Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Complex Microbial Communities – Sage J. B. Dunham – Accounts Chemical Research
Techniques
* Mitochondrial and chloroplast blocking clamps: Identifying the plant associated microbiome across aquatic and terrestrial environments: the effects of amplification method on taxa discovery – Sara L. Jackrel – Molecular Ecology Resources
Microbial ecology
Probabilistic adaptation in changing microbial environments – Yarden Katz – PeerJ
Microbes in the news
An interesting year – Nature Microbiology
Microbiota: Reseeding the gut – Liam Drew – Nature
Danish researchers uncover bacteria’s secret code language – News Medical
New CRISPR-Cas Enzymes Discovered – Kerry Grens – The Scientist
Move over Cas9, CRISPR-Cas3 might hold the key to solving the antibiotics crisis – Sarah Buhr – Tech Crunch
Gut bacteria may hold key to treating autoimmune diseases – EurekAlert
The Secret To Treating Autoimmune Disease May Lie In The Gut – The Huffington Post
Science, publishing and career
The lives they lived: Ruth Hubbard. She was grateful simply to be a female biologist — until she got mad about needing to be grateful – Sara Corbett – New York Times
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