General Microbiome
Questioning the fetal microbiome illustrates pitfalls of low-biomass microbial studies – Kennedy et al. Nature
Microbial foods for improving human and planetary health – Jahn et al. Cell
A tissue atlas of ulcerative colitis revealing evidence of sex-dependent differences in disease-driving inflammatory cell types and resistance to TNF inhibitor therapy – Mayer et al. Science Advances
Associations of the skin, oral and gut microbiome with aging, frailty and infection risk reservoirs in older adults – Larson et al. Nature Aging
Bacteriophage / Virome
Phage therapy: From biological mechanisms to future directions – Strathdee et al. Cell
Mining metatranscriptomes reveals a vast world of viroid-like circular RNAs – Lee et al. Cell
Water and extremophile microbiome
High-resolution metagenomic reconstruction of the freshwater spring bloom – Kavagutti et al. Microbiome
Closed genomes uncover a saltwater species of Candidatus Electronema and shed new light on the boundary between marine and freshwater cable bacteria – Sereika et al. ISME
Bioinformatics
Enhanced correlation-based linking of biosynthetic gene clusters to their metabolic products through chemical class matching – Louwen et al. Microbiome
PLSDA-batch: a multivariate framework to correct for batch effects in microbiome data – Wang & Cao. Briefings in Bioinformatics
Genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of 7,302 human microorganisms for personalized medicine – Heinken et al. Nature Biotechnology
Non-Microbiome picks
Infection infidelities drive innate immunity – Kagan. Science
Functional T cells are capable of supernumerary cell division and longevity – Soerens et al. Nature
Genetic adaptation to pathogens and increased risk of inflammatory disorders in post-Neolithic Europe – Kerner et al. Cell Genomics
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