Giorgia Guglielmi
Recent studies indicate that the placenta has a microbiota. A publication on Microbiome instead supports the classic thesis: the placenta is sterile.
According to a study led by Geoffrey Hannigan of the University of Michigan, the virome of colorectal cancer patients is altered.
Combining probiotics with bacteriophages could improve hospital sanitation practices by eliminating drug-resistant pathogens.
A review published in Journal of Innate Immunity supports a role of gut microbes in alleviating or even preventing graft-versus-host disease (GvHD).
