Work by Peter Turnbaugh UC San Francisco and colleagues published in #mBio shows how the gut environment controls bacterial degradation of the dyes in processed foods and drugs. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Flora has a microbiome too! Enjoy this inspired team-up with art by Rachel Rock and poem by @Science_Haikus #MicrobeArt2023 #InternationalMicroorganismDay

A double-header out now with our amazing clinical collaborators UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Ctr Erin Van Blarigan Sor Piawah Than S. Kyaw, MD, PhD looking at the microbiome in cancer survivors sciencedirect.com/science/articl… and with respect to health disparities mdpi.com/2072-6694/15/1…

Congrats to Veronica Escalante whose paper dissecting the ways in which gut bacteria try to escape the off-target effects of a common statin is out today onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mm…

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Science is Fun! is back after a long hiatus. I interview my UC San Francisco neighbor, PI of Mukherjee Lab about how pathogenic bacteria are great tools to discover how human cells work. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sci…

Celebrate the holidays with more Science is Fun! Dr. Susan Fisher UC San Francisco explains the wonders of the placenta. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sci…

"Dad Life!" Is about to go double platinum 😭😆🤣 I'm dead (Sound Up)

This week on Science is Fun! Lewis Lanier UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Ctr details the discovery of a new type of immune cell dubbed the "natural killer cell” and why they're so unique and fascinating. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sci…

This week I'm joined by Jay Levy UCSF School of Medicine, who co-discovered HIV. He talks about this fascinating history and the current challenges in this area. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sci…

This week on Science is Fun! syn bio prof Kole Roybal UC San Francisco shares the exciting progress in immune cell therapies for cancer: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sci…

Dr. Ron Krauss UC San Francisco UCSFChildrensOakland is an expert in cholesterol – on #SIF he explains why nutrition is so complex and how diet advice is often oversimplified: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sci…

Stephen Hauser UC San Francisco is a #multiplesclerosis pioneer and author of "The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries.” On #SIF he shares a remarkable career inspired by a childhood at the boxing ring: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sci…

Nice article on using CRISPR to engineering the microbiome: the-scientist.com/engineering-th…

The link for the faculty position is now posted! Deadline is October 15th. Please share widely with talented scientists in your network. Come join us at UCSF! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05243

ISO up-and-coming microbiome researchers who want to start a lab UC San Francisco in my home department. Beautiful location, great food, friendly collaborators The Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine at UCSF, brilliant graduate students - what more could you ask for?

The NIH's literal mission: to prevent disease, to expand the knowledge base in medical and associated sciences, and to enhance the nation's economic well-being, and ensure a continued high return on the public investment in research. #DividedWeFall science.org/content/articl…

Trump ordered the National Institutes of Health to cancel their review panels on cancer research. If you or someone you know has cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or one of many countless illnesses that needs a cure — this could have devastating effects. science.org/content/articl…