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Healthy donor fecal transplants may boost immunotherapy in kidney cancer

Modifying the microbiota through a fecal transplant can be safely combined with immunotherapy in people with kidney cancer.

Gut microbe and its metabolite may protect the heart from atrial fibrillation

Restoring R. gnavus or supplementing isovaleric acid could be a promising microbiota–based strategy to prevent or treat atrial fibrillation. 

Your skin is speaking. Who’s listening?

A new generation of biosensor-equipped wristbands is learning to read the chemical language of the skin microbiome in real time.

In mice, a ketogenic diet protects the lungs from sepsis via gut bacteria

Azelaic acid travels from the gut to the lungs, where it activates immune cells to reduce inflammation and protect the lungs.

Nursery interactions can contribute more to babies’ gut microbiotas than family

Even after long breaks, such as summer vacation, babies continued to share more microbes with former nursery peers than with children from other nurseries.

Microbiome-derived bile acid and islet autoimmunity

A longitudinal study aims to explore the trajectories of MCBAs in relation to islet autoimmunity and type 1 diabetes of children.

Stem-like cells in the gut sense commensal bacteria to recruit protective immune cells

E. coli 541-15 helps the colon recruit key immune cells that can develop into macrophages.

Mouth bacteria might play an active role in obesity

Computer models combining oral bacteria, their metabolic functions, and saliva chemicals could better distinguish obese from healthy individuals compared with clinical measurements alone. 

Gut bacteria and their metabolites may offer new way to diagnose depression

The team developed a machine-learning model using 34 metabolites that could reliably identify depressed individuals.

Gut microbes from young mice boost gut repair

A youthful gut microbiota can improve the regenerative function of aged intestinal stem cells.

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