👉Good morning #microbiome folks: don't forget to register (no registration fee, hybrid) for our annual, international Theodor Escherich Symposium on Microbiome Research 17/18. November: medunigraz.at/tes with amazing: W. Florian Fricke, Schirmer Lab, Dr. Bärbel Stecher, and:

Delighted to share our latest work on Bangladeshi infant gut #microbiome with Nestle Research, icddr,b, Xavier Lab 🙏Gut microbiomes of Bangladeshi infants harbored three successive Bifidobacterium longum clades 🦠 authors.elsevier.com/c/1g0K2L7PXiqTH

⚡️ On Nature Medicine - Nivolumab plus ipilimumab with or without live bacterial supplementation in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a randomized phase 1 trial Sumanta K. Pal, MD, FASCO Nazli Dizman #kidneycancer #immunotherapy nature.com/articles/s4159…

Forget losing jobs to AI, look to the sky! Flocks of pigeons detect cancer in scans with 99% accuracy & “are suitable surrogates for human observers in certain medical image perception studies, thus avoiding the need to recruit, pay & retain clinicians...”journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

I am thrilled to share with you our recently published paper showing that the microbiota-derived metabolite 3-IAA influences chemotherapy efficacy in #PancreaticCancer nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Necrotizing enterocolitis (#NEC) is a devastating disease, affecting up to 11% of all very-low birthweight (<1500g) infants. In our newest paper Nature Communications we look at NEC prophylaxis regimens in clinics that are highly successful in preventing NEC (average NEC rate: 2.9%).

This is awesome (new genetic code acting as a bidirectional firewall for infection and gene transfer) and a bit frightening (potentially higher fitness): I am glad they added a proper biocontainment (stable dependency on non-standard amino acid). nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our new Nature Medicine study aims to improve our understanding of obesity & its impact on health. Although useful, classical BMI misclassifies ~30% of people. To capture the heterogeneity of obesity, we developed blood-omics-based biological BMI (bBMI). nature.com/articles/s4159…

1/ 🤰What can we learn about pregnancy form 45 million lab tests? We present a dynamic atlas of pregnancy and postpartum based on measurements from over half a million pregnancies at a one-week resolution. bioRxiv Alon Bar

Check our new preprint by @SarSarela (now GL ITQB NOVA) and Michael Kuhn (Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg moved to BlueSky)! Communities use diverse mechanisms to protect individual members from drugs, but community resilience breaks at high drug concentrations, and negative interactions emerge. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Greengenes2 unifies microbial data in a single reference tree nature.com/articles/s4158…

New preprint with @delafuenteupenn : The antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) of the global microbiome! From 72 diffferent habitats (the best current sampling of the global microbiome) we obtained almost 1 million candidate AMPs biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great to see this published today in Nature Microbiology! Thanks to reviewers, collaborators and everybody involved inside and outside EMBL Link: nature.com/articles/s4156…

Immensely proud to share our four papers on #SingleCell dissection of #Alzheimers Disease coming out in Cell today, reporting 2.3M #scRNA profiles and 850k #scATAC profiles across 427 post-mortem human brain samples from AD and non-AD donors in a wonderful

Thrilled to share our new preprint. A thread 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

After a high dose of psilocybin, the brain desynchronizes at a massive scale, causing loss of our sense of self, time, and space. This may drive the burst of plasticity caused by psychedelics. The next day, brain activity has largely returned to normal, but an echo remains – a

Sign for Europe: eu-inc.org

For somebody working on the gut #microbiome, the responses ("gross", "embarrassment", "pseudoscience", etc.) to this nature article on the treatment of C-section babies with their mother’s poo are quite sobering. So, I thought I would provide a perspective in the thread below.