May 8, 2026

See you next week at MVIF! Gut microbiome Gut microbial diversity and inferred capacity to produce short-chain fatty acids are associated with acute stress reactivity in healthy adults – Thomas Kar…

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Strain-level translocation and enrichment dynamics of oral bacteria in the lower gastrointestinal tract of stunted children

Emerging evidence suggests that ectopic colonization of oral bacteria in the lower digestive tract may exacerbate gastrointestinal disorders. Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether bacteria of or...

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Evaluating long-term stool preservation methods for maximizing the recovery of viable human fecal microbiota

The gut microbiome plays a fundamental role in human health, prompting efforts to catalog and preserve its diversity across human populations. While DNA sequencing dominates microbiome research, cu...

tandfonline.com

Strain-level translocation and enrichment mechanisms of oral bacteria in the lower gastrointestinal tract of stunted children

Emerging evidence suggests that ectopic colonization of oral bacteria in the lower digestive tract may exacerbate gastrointestinal disorders. Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether bacteria of oral ...

doi.org

Phage diversity mirrors bacterial strain diversity in the honey bee gut microbiota - Nature Communications

Authors analyse paired viral and bacterial shotgun metagenomics data from individual honeybee guts, revealing modular, nested phage–bacteria networks, with viral diversity mirroring bacterial strain c...

nature.com

One Health, One Microbiome - Microbiome

One Health is a concept and framework for addressing the interconnected nature of humans, animals and their environments to improve the health and wellbeing of all three, along with added social and f...

microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com

Race by other names: critiquing population categories in microbiome research | mSystems

Behind the façade of scientific objectivity, race continues to haunt modern science. Contemporary biomedical research often employs categories of human difference that have recently come under critici...

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Milk-derived casein glycomacropeptide improves colonic mucus function under Western-style diet feeding in a sialylation-dependent manner

The colonic mucus layer is the primary interface between the host and the gut microbiota. It serves both as an ecological niche for bacteria and a bar…

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Metagenomic estimation of absolute bacterial biomass in the mammalian gut through host-derived read normalization | mSystems

In this study, we asked whether normalization by host reads alone was sufficient to estimate absolute bacterial biomass directly from stool metagenomic data, without the need for synthetic spike-ins, ...

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