Tag: Microbiome

A single-patient study found that 90 days of combined abdominal and transcranial photobiomodulation was associated with a dramatic shift in ...

Gut Microbes Take Center Stage in the Renamed Ovarian Syndrome PMOS

A new review proposes an integrated gut–metabolism–endocrine–ovary axis linking gut microbiota dysbiosis to insulin resistance, hyperandrogenism, and ovarian dysfunction in ...

Mammary Glands May Have Evolved to Pass Beneficial Microbes From Mother to Offspring, New Framework Proposes

The proposal arrives at a moment when mammalian microbiome research has matured considerably, yet its evolutionary interpretation remains fragmented. Most ...

Finding the Goldilocks zone of antibiotic prescribing in preterm infants

A new commentary in Pediatric Research argues that neonatal antibiotic prescribing must move toward precision stewardship, balancing the risks of ...

Allergic Rhinitis Reshapes the Nasopharyngeal Microbiome and Metabolome in Children With Severe Adenoid Hypertrophy

A new study finds that allergic rhinitis significantly alters the bacterial diversity and metabolic profile of adenoid tissue in children, ...

How Lactobacillus Is Rewriting the Rules of Fermented Food Safety and Next-Generation Nutrition

A new review maps how Lactobacillus and other lactic acid bacteria are being reclassified, genomically vetted for safety, and engineered ...

The Hidden Bacterial World of Sand Flies: New Clues for Fighting Leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka

A first-of-its-kind molecular survey in Sri Lanka finds no detectable Wolbachia in sand fly vectors of cutaneous leishmaniasis, while revealing ...

Exploratory pigeons carry richer bacterial communities, linking dairy farms, cities and wildlife

Feral pigeons are such a familiar fixture of cities and farms that they are easy to dismiss as background noise. ...

Bigger Reference Databases Are Quietly Eroding the Accuracy of Metagenomic Classification

A new study shows that the relentless growth of the NCBI RefSeq database is degrading the accuracy of the popular ...

Cattle Vaginal Microbes and Widespread Drug Resistance Revealed in First-of-Its-Kind Nepal Study

A pioneering Nepalese field study combining bacterial culture and 16S rRNA sequencing reveals distinct cervico-vaginal microbial profiles across cattle reproductive ...

Why Astronauts May Crave a Taste of Home on Mars Missions

A new review argues that culturally familiar foods could support astronaut mental resilience through biological and psychosocial pathways, but direct ...

Hidden Worlds in Seagrass Beds: Microbes Follow Latitude and Habitat, Landmark Study Finds

A large-scale genomic survey of Zostera japonica seagrass beds in China reveals that microbial communities follow latitudinal gradients and microhabitat-specific ...

Low-Dose Azithromycin Reshapes the Gut Microbiome in Healthy Dogs, Study Finds

A prospective study of eleven healthy Beagles shows that low-dose azithromycin induces a mostly reversible dysbiosis and a reversible decrease ...

Gut bacteria and lung injury research has exploded since 2019, a decade-long analysis reveals

A new bibliometric analysis of more than 1,000 publications shows research linking gut microbiota to lung injury surged after 2019, ...

Alzheimer’s Precision Medicine Must Fuse Cure and Care, Researchers Argue

A new Perspective argues that Alzheimer's precision medicine should treat cure and care as linked outputs of one continuously learning ...

Probiotic toothpastes and mouthrinses mostly fail basic probiotic tests

A lab analysis of 22 commercial probiotic toothpastes and mouthrinses found only two products contained culturable bacteria matching their labels, ...

Antibiotics in adolescence leave lasting marks on the rat brain and fentanyl-seeking