Gut Microbiome & Health
Lactic acid produced by optimal vaginal Lactobacillus spp. potently and specifically inactivates HIV-1 in vitro by targeting the viral RNA genome and reverse transcriptase
– Muriel Aldunate – PLOS Pathogens
Differential composition of the pulmonary microbiome in HIV-positive versus HIV-negative patients with Pneumocystis jirovecii
– Chang-Run Zhang – PLOS ONE
Risk of atopic dermatitis in periodontitis patients with and without dental scaling: A retrospective cohort study
– Ming-Che Chiang – PLOS ONE
Fecal carriage and associated factors of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in children under five years old with diarrhea at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania
– Emily M. Jackson – PLOS ONE
Pathogens, Immunity & Host Interactions
Dietary tannic acid promotes intestinal clearance of Candida albicans by cross-linking hyphal chitosan
– Jia Feng – PLOS Pathogens
Trends in Clostridioides difficile infection prevalence among pediatric cancer patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis
– Muluneh Assefa – PLOS ONE
Multiplex serology for Streptobacillus moniliformis and other ‘rat bite fever-like’ microorganisms for seroprevalence studies in rodents
– Katja Schmidt – PLOS ONE
Animal & Environmental Microbiomes
Effects of rumen-protected or unprotected Clostridium butyricum on growth performance, rumen fermentation, immunity and antioxidation in fattening goats
– Caixia Zhang – PLOS ONE
The intracellular symbiont Wolbachia alters Drosophila development and metabolism to buffer against nutritional stress
– Amelia R. I. Lindsey – PLOS Genetics
Interactive effects of developmental and adult nutrition on lifespan and fecundity in a genetically diverse Drosophila population
– Andrew Jones – PLOS ONE
Metabolism, Health & Disease
Alterations in the serum metabolome in patients with the COVID-19 Omicron variant and in recovered cases
– Feng Gao – PLOS ONE
Humanized monoacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 mice on a high-fat diet exhibit impaired liver detoxification during metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease
– J. Jose Corbalan – PLOS ONE
Current and future burden of gynecological cancers attributable to high body-mass index: A comprehensive global analysis and projection study
– Xuanyu Zhao – PLOS ONE
Developing and experimentally validating a glucocorticoid signaling-related gene signature to evaluate the prognosis and immunotherapeutic response in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma
– Yu Zhang – PLOS ONE
Computational & Bioinformatics Advances
ArcDFI: Attention regularization guided by CYP450 interactions for predicting drug–food interactions
– Mogan Gim – PLOS Computational Biology
Advanced deep learning-based brain tumor classification using a novel customized CNN and optimized residual network
– Mehwish Rasheed – PLOS ONE
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