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Stress can impair blood-forming stem cells through a brain-gut-bone marrow pathway, making them produce fewer mature immune cells.
People living together shared more oral and gut strains than unrelated people, with romantic partners showing especially high sharing of mouth microbes.
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Fermentation techniques offer a powerful biotransformation pathway to valorise these materials into high-value nutraceuticals and functional ingredients.
Microbiota-targeted approaches that boost specific SCFAs could help prevent harmful Candida overgrowth in vulnerable people.
Repeated head impacts, even if minor, can have biological effects.
The results may inform programs to preserve microbial diversity while delivering essential care.
Monitoring the gut microbiota could in the future help understand, diagnose, or manage Sjögren syndrome.
Microbial communities may be engineered at the protein-expression level because bacteria adjust their protein production in response to specific neighbors.
MOZAIC, an AI model designed to compare donor and recipients microbiotas, predicted the microbiota convergence after FMT with an accuracy of about 80%.
According to Stephen Michael Collins, McMaster University, these vesicles may represent not only a new component of the microbiota–gut–brain axis, but also a promising platform for future targeted drug, vaccine…
