ICYMI: New online! Pushing the frontier of gut microbiome health cross-kingdom and cross-organ

Our invited Year in Review piece on the topic of gut microbiome is out at Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology @natrevgastrohep.nature.com 🌟 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OUT NOW! - Engineered Metarhizium fungi produce longifolene to attract and kill mosquitoes 🍄🧲🦟☠️ By Dan Tang, Jun Cao, Raymond Leger, Jianhua Huang, Weiguo Fang & colleagues. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our diet-microbiome interaction and informed precision nutrition article is finally out at Cell Metabolism. @Cell Thank you to all of our collaborators!

New research article Evaluation of bacteriophages as a signature of #microbiome health: a systematic review and meta-analysis www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #ViroSky #Phage #OpenAccess #OA

SOOOOO excited to see this online IN REAL-LIFE!! Here, we review the latest in hepatic tissue-resident #Tcell biology. We draw on a metaphor proposed by Robert Louis Stevenson [1886] to highlight the fact a cell can manifest different behaviours & actions depending on environmental context 🧪

A paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution presents a time-calibrated phylogeny of Fungi. This timescale suggests an older age of crown Fungi, as well as a minimum age for ancient interactions involving fungi and the algal ancestors of embryophytes in terrestrial ecosystems. #phylo 🧪

Nature research paper: Commensal yeast promotes Salmonella Typhimurium virulence go.nature.com/4mTnRzG

We know GLP-1 drugs reduce brain inflammation. But I didn't anticipate bipolar disorder as a possible indication in the future www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genetic-sequencing techniques have uncovered the oldest host-associated microbial DNA ever recorded — inside samples of teeth and bones from woolly and steppe mammoths. go.nature.com/4mNN3aS

This is a piece I am super interested in

A Perspective in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology explores the global evolution of inflammatory bowel disease over the next 20 years and proposes strategies for prevention and health-care innovation. go.nature.com/4fW7sYy #medsky 🧪

Nice to see some familiar names from @mimsumea.bsky.social 😊 Congratulations!

"[Gavi] would be even more helpful if they could more consistently help countries build the strong and lasting vaccination systems that low-income and medium-income countries need to make sure vaccines can eventually be delivered without foreign aid." theconversation.com/us-has-slash...

😧 scary! Maybe more reasons to stick to cooking with unprocessed raw ingredients?

Our study on the dietary whey protein and its effect on gut phageome and bacteriome, protecting against Crohn’s disease, made to the cover of the journal Gut.

Our News & Views piece is out at Nature Metabolism. We discussed the role of gut virome in MASLD, particularly the importance of virome www.nature.com/articles/s42...

New online! Post-antibiotics microbiome restoration driven by diet

A study of 981 colorectal cancers in 11 countries shows geographic & age-related variations in mutational processes & suggests that early-life mutagenic exposure to colibactin-producing bacteria may contribute to the rising incidence of early-onset colorectal cancer 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Our study on how diet may regulate the gut phageome-bacteriome interaction relaying to a disease protection, #IBD, is freshly out at the journal #Gut gut.bmj.com/content/earl...

✨ Here is a 🧵 about a wonderful paper by @cdiener.com et al. that shows how we can estimate diet from 💩 metagenomic sequencing data, published today! ✨ I’m really happy and grateful Christian included me in later stages of this project and that I could help out a little 😊

ICYMI: New online! Influence of biological sex in inflammatory bowel diseases

Mouse experiments show that microplastics get gobbled up by immune cells that clog up blood vessels in the brain - “like a car crash” 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New research article in The Lancet Microbe Interactions between live attenuated #influenza vaccine and nasopharyngeal #microbiota among children aged 24–59 months in The Gambia: a phase 4, open-label, randomised controlled trial www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #ViroSky #OA

Gene editor may have cured infant of a deadly metabolic disorder www.science.org/content/arti...

A paper in Nature Microbiology reports on a gut bacterium that may be associated with reduced dietary sugar intake. The findings could aid the development of therapies to manage obesity and metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes. https://go.nature.com/3CiERgB 🧪

Maybe you don't really have a 'sweet tooth', it's just your gut #microbiome!

Type 2 immunity is thought of as a potential promoter of tumorigenesis. Emerging evidence challenges this perspective. Could it be harness to reimagine cancer immunotherapies? 🧪 @nature.com @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In this BBC Science Focus piece, I talked about the gut virome and its therapeutic values! www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo...

Comes to a good conclusion that the potential impact of an influenza pandemic on children, might soften some people's resistance to public health measures. www.statnews.com/2025/01/06/c...

Routine procedures—from surgery to childbirth—could carry widespread life-threatening risks because of antibiotic resistant bacteria. As superbugs spread globally, death rates from resistance are set to double & could claim 40M lives in the next 25 yrs www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The current international financial architecture is a key reason that the UN Sustainable Development Goals are failing. A landmark conference in Spain must make progress in reforming it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Important #AI chatbot for medical diagnosis report today @naturemedicine.bsky.social by @rajpurkar.bsky.social and colleagues, and coverage @newscientist.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.newscientist.com/article/2462...

This is how I’m built btw

As a gut microbiome scientist, I always think use of antibiotics has an immense undesired impact on the gut microbiome - to name a few: loss of low abundant yet salutary microbes, imbalanced microbiome recovery and impaired resilience, phage release and host jump and hence virulence transmission…

Global immunization efforts have saved an estimated 154 million lives – that is 6 lives every minute – since the founding of the Expanded Programme on Immunization, 50 years ago. bit.ly/4gpxQJK

OUT NOW in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social Bacterial and host fucosylation protect against colitis by maintaining the IgA B cell response in the murine gut by Zhongbin Deng & co www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Entacapone, a Parkinson’s disease medication, sequesters iron resulting in a selective inhibition of gut microbial activity, according to a study in Nature Microbiology. Microbial growth can be rescued by replenishing levels of microbiota-accessible iron. https://go.nature.com/414h6TG 🧪

I am delighted to share our new study on Faecal Phageome Transplantation is out at the journal #Gut. In this study, we conceptually demonstrated that Faecal Phageome Transplantation can treat chronic disease, in this case #IBD gut.bmj.com/content/earl...