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Karen Pendergrass

@5wordsorlesskp

ENTP 5w4 Enthusiast in a myriad of areas including agricultural sustainability, color theory, hard determinism, microbiome, fiber, drug repurposing, psychology.

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With the growing field of #microbiome research, there is a need for a specific term to describe experts in this area, distinct from general microbiologists. The term "microbiomicist" is a logical choice to fill this lexical gap.

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Is E. coli a Major Microbial Association (MMA) in Endometriosis? microbiomeroundtable.com/question/is-e-… #microbiome #ecoli #mma

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Standardization isn't just a bad idea, it's perhaps the dumbest idea proposed yet in Microbiome Signatures science. #microbiomesignatures

Standardization isn't just a bad idea, it's perhaps the dumbest idea proposed yet in Microbiome Signatures science. 

#microbiomesignatures
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Can we consider adopting a new definition for microbiome signatures? It would speed up the translational process :) #microbiome microbiomesignatures.com/definition/mic…

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She’s right, and this information is valuable. A woman loses interest when she no longer finds you attractive and inside of a relationship that primarily happens after multiple ignored attempts at telling you what she needs from you.

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Heavy metals shape the invisible world of microbes—and, in turn, microbes are key players in detoxifying or adapting to these contaminants. Microbial metallomics is unlocking how bacteria tolerate, transform, or signal the presence of metals in their environments, from soil to

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One unexpected truth: microbes are metal junkies. Nickel, zinc, and iron aren’t just nutrients—they’re weapons microbes use to power virulence. Change the metals, and you change the pathogens.

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Calprotectin isn’t just a biomarker of gut inflammation—it’s an immune tactic. It starves microbes of zinc and manganese, forcing important shifts in the microbiome. Microbial Metallomics shows us that nutritional immunity is metal warfare. #microbiome #metallomics

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Some pathogens need metals more than oxygen. Helicobacter pylori depends on nickel to produce urease, a key virulence enzyme. Take away nickel, and the infection collapses—that’s metallomics in action. #hpylori #metallomics #microbialmetallomics

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15 years ago I was diagnosed with seven different conditions in one year — from Celiac Disease to cirrhosis to Schizophrenia. My recovery began when I stopped chasing symptoms and started investigating my microbiome. That journey became the foundation not only for my work in

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Dimethylglyoxime represents a novel antibiotic that exploits a fundamental metabolic difference between pathogenic bacteria and their mammalian hosts. By selectively depleting bacterial access to nickel, a cofactor essential for multiple pathogenic enzymes but unnecessary for

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Microbial Metallomics and Parkinson's Disease: A Unified Metal-Driven Framework Linking Ferroptosis, Dysbiosis, and α-Synuclein Pathology Pendergrass, Karen Description This work challenges one of the most entrenched assumptions in Parkinson’s disease research: that its

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Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) has long been framed as a disease of prematurity driven by “dysbiosis,” formula feeding, and opportunistic pathogens. Yet despite decades of research, a central mechanistic question has remained unanswered: why do the same microbial taxa repeatedly

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) has long been framed as a disease of prematurity driven by “dysbiosis,” formula feeding, and opportunistic pathogens. Yet despite decades of research, a central mechanistic question has remained unanswered: why do the same microbial taxa repeatedly
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Most obesity epidemic narratives fail when stress-tested against basic logic because they explain how weight gain can occur, but not why it began when it did in the first place. The epidemiologic prevalence curves show a rapid, synchronized rise across age and sex beginning in

Most obesity epidemic narratives fail when stress-tested against basic logic because they explain how weight gain can occur, but not why it began when it did in the first place. The epidemiologic prevalence curves show a rapid, synchronized rise across age and sex beginning in