Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) affects over 7 million globally. Recent research in Nature Medicine presents a noninvasive microbiome-based IBD diagnostic method by the team of 👩‍🔬Siew Ng and 👩‍🔬Wendy ZHANG from CU Medicine, Hong Kong. Link: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Microbiome Summit 2025: Microbiome, Drugs & Novel Approaches in IBD Jan 11, 9am-5:30pm, HKSTP Explore latest research on gut microbiome's role in IBD treatment. Discovery at this year's summit! Register now: magic-inno.com/microbiomesumm… #MicrobesSpark

I am humbled to be invited delivering a talk on “Early life microbiome from the MOMMY Cohort” Happy to see many captivate and inspiring works & connect renown early life microbiome researchers Ju-Sheng Zheng Lianmin Chen Prof Wang Jinfeng etc CUHK Medicine Microbiota I-Center

Featured Article: Microbiome MAGIC Metagenome-assembled genome inventory for children(MAGIC) features prokaryotic/viral genomes, enabling characterization of microbiome dynamics & keystone species Ye Peng Jie Zhu Lin ZHANG Siew Ng Hein M. Tun cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Exploring the early life gut microbiome with MAGIC Edoardo Pasolli highlights work of Ye Peng Jie Zhu Lin ZHANG Siew Ng Hein M. Tun providing MAGIC catalog as a resource for studying bacterial & viral diversity of the global gut microbiome in early life cell.com/cell-host-micr…

A bile acid —lithocholic acid—mimics caloric restriction and slows aging in mice, worms, flies nature.com/articles/s4158… nature.com/articles/s4158… nature

Roseburia alleviates neuropathic pain Patients w/shingles or postherpetic neuralgia exhibit distinct gut microbiota profiles. In mice, R. intestinalis produces butyrate to alleviate pain by activating vagal nerves, suppressing pain-related regions cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Open-access nature paper from the GIVES-21 consortium, co-led by Siew Ng and I, funded by Helmsley Charitable Trust, and supported by IOIBD, reveals the global evolution of IBD across epidemiologic stages. Co–first authors: Dr. LD & @LingWWindsor nature.com/articles/s4158…

Nature research paper: Maternal iron deficiency causes male-to-female sex reversal in mouse embryos go.nature.com/45a435a

#ChinaGut 2025 kicks off with a grand opening! 🎉 With 30+ academic sessions and 10+ industry-focused events, it’s set to attract thousands of participants from around the globe. Don’t miss it! 🌍 More details: cs.chinagut.cn/2025/en Mr Gut #ChinaGut2025 #Microbiome

Humbled to share our latest work from MOMMY 三歲定八十 in #CHINAGUT2025 (中国肠道大会) in Ningbo - largest gut health summit #MOMMY #EarlyLifeMicrobiome CUHK Medicine Microbiota I-Center Siew Ng Francis Chan MD

Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy go.nature.com/45bbnxp

MagIC Microbiome Webinar: Gut Health, Age Well - Unraveling the Microbiome's Secrets Jun 19, 2025, 20:00 HKT Explore the gut's impact on ageing, disease prevention, and cognitive health with the expert. Register now: lnkd.in/gYAk6v5R

ViOTUcluster: A high‐speed, All‐in‐one pipeline for viromic analysis of #metagenomic data, available on GitHub: github.com/liusihang/ViOT…… #iMetaOmics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/im… #Bioinformatics #viruse #virome

[Symposium alert] We will host an Immuno-Oncology Symposium on 3rd July in LiHS, Prince of Wales Hospital. We will talk about metabolism-immune microenvironment crosstalk, gut microbiome, CRC-intrinsic epitranscriptomics, γδ and Tregs. Please join us!

How gut inflammation can induce brain inflammation nature.com/articles/s4158… nature

FYI, "The gut microbiota is crucial for maintaining the host’s health by performing key functions, including nutrient provision, vitamin synthesis, facilitation of metabolic processes, and modulation of the immune system. Our prior observation studies of the gut microbiota in

Happy to share our 2nd IMAPCT paper published. We highlighted the resident gut microbiome modulates the effect of synbiotics on the immunogenicity after SARS-COV-2 vaccination. Lin ZHANG Siew Ng Francis Chan MD Microbiota I-Center CUHK Medicine nature.com/articles/s4152…

Our new study reveals - A healthy gut enables probiotic engraftment that builds powerful, lasting vaccine immunity through beneficial metabolites. nature.com/articles/s4152… Microbiota I-Center CUHK Medicine Siew Ng Francis Chan MD Shilan Wang Wong Chi Sang Martin npj Journals

Important insights by David T. Rubin, MD Dr Rubin on the hypes and hopes of allogenic and autologous fecal transplant #fmt in Hong Kong Microbiota I-Center The University of Chicago Question of the day: Is your Microbiome part of “self”?