Older Gut Microbiomes Can Drive Vascular Aging
Microbiomes in older mice pumped out damaging metabolites that drove endothelial cell senescence, offering potential targets for therapeutic intervention.
#Omics #Science
Microbiomes in older mice pumped out damaging metabolites that drove endothelial cell senescence, offering potential targets for therapeutic intervention.
#Omics #Science
Older Gut Microbiomes Can Drive Vascular Aging | The Scientist
Microbiomes in older mice pumped out damaging metabolites that drove endothelial cell senescence, offering potential targets for therapeutic intervention.
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October 31, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Older Gut Microbiomes Can Drive Vascular Aging
Microbiomes in older mice pumped out damaging metabolites that drove endothelial cell senescence, offering potential targets for therapeutic intervention.
#Omics #Science
Microbiomes in older mice pumped out damaging metabolites that drove endothelial cell senescence, offering potential targets for therapeutic intervention.
#Omics #Science
Older Gut Microbiomes Can Drive Vascular Aging | The Scientist
Microbiomes in older mice pumped out damaging metabolites that drove endothelial cell senescence, offering potential targets for therapeutic intervention.
www.the-scientist.com
October 31, 2026 at 6:14 PM
CAnDi: a global catalogue of anaerobic digestion microbiomes | Nucleic Acids Research | Oxford Academic
CAnDi: a global catalogue of anaerobic digestion microbiomes
Abstract. Methanogenic environments harbour complex prokaryotic consortia that drive the anaerobic conversion of organic matter into methane and carbon dio
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October 31, 2026 at 11:23 AM
CAnDi: a global catalogue of anaerobic digestion microbiomes | Nucleic Acids Research | Oxford Academic
Happy to share our work on nematode- microbe interaction
Rhizosphere Microbiomes Respond to Plant-Parasitic Nematode Cues and Contribute to Host Defence
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#Nematodes, #Fungi, #microbialcommunity
Rhizosphere Microbiomes Respond to Plant-Parasitic Nematode Cues and Contribute to Host Defence
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#Nematodes, #Fungi, #microbialcommunity
Rhizosphere Microbiomes Respond to Plant‐Parasitic Nematode Cues and Contribute to Host Defence
Nematode-derived cues activate maize rhizosphere microbiomes and cuticle-associated fungi to produce metabolites that suppress Meloidogyne hapla invasion and prime reactive oxygen species-based defen....
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November 1, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Happy to share our work on nematode- microbe interaction
Rhizosphere Microbiomes Respond to Plant-Parasitic Nematode Cues and Contribute to Host Defence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Nematodes, #Fungi, #microbialcommunity
Rhizosphere Microbiomes Respond to Plant-Parasitic Nematode Cues and Contribute to Host Defence
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#Nematodes, #Fungi, #microbialcommunity
Host identity drives distinct prokaryotic and microeukaryotic microbiomes across four cold-water coral species in a near-pristine Mediterranean reef. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.30.763042v1
November 1, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Host identity drives distinct prokaryotic and microeukaryotic microbiomes across four cold-water coral species in a near-pristine Mediterranean reef. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.30.763042v1
Engineering a gut bacterium depleted in industrialized microbiomes to survive malabsorption https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.27.762397v1
October 29, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Engineering a gut bacterium depleted in industrialized microbiomes to survive malabsorption https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.27.762397v1
PhD project on "The evolution of host-associated microbiomes through time and space" available in my group @edinburghbiology.bsky.social for Oct 2027 intake. We are an international and fun group and IEE is scientifically and socially a great place! More info evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...
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Reach out!
October 29, 2026 at 7:43 PM
PhD project on "The evolution of host-associated microbiomes through time and space" available in my group @edinburghbiology.bsky.social for Oct 2027 intake. We are an international and fun group and IEE is scientifically and socially a great place! More info evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...
Reach out!
Reach out!
Folk want cabinets of biodiversity curiosities, not functioning ecological systems. I visited the Eden Project this week and maybe it’s what people want in the UK: microbiomes with their favourite species. And pay for that.
October 30, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Folk want cabinets of biodiversity curiosities, not functioning ecological systems. I visited the Eden Project this week and maybe it’s what people want in the UK: microbiomes with their favourite species. And pay for that.
An exciting opportunity to work on wild mammal microbiomes using dental calculus! 🦷🦠🧬
I can wholeheartedly vouch for the supervisor, the lab group and the institute!
I can wholeheartedly vouch for the supervisor, the lab group and the institute!
PhD project on "The evolution of host-associated microbiomes through time and space" available in my group @edinburghbiology.bsky.social for Oct 2027 intake. We are an international and fun group and IEE is scientifically and socially a great place! More info evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...
Reach out!
Reach out!
October 30, 2026 at 12:29 PM
An exciting opportunity to work on wild mammal microbiomes using dental calculus! 🦷🦠🧬
I can wholeheartedly vouch for the supervisor, the lab group and the institute!
I can wholeheartedly vouch for the supervisor, the lab group and the institute!
[Both Neanderthals & ancient humans had starch-adapted strains in their dental plaque
- It seems to be a very HUMAN-SPECIFIC evolutionary trait -
The findings push back on the idea that we were top carnivores, given that the 🧠 requires glucose as a nutrient source]
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- It seems to be a very HUMAN-SPECIFIC evolutionary trait -
The findings push back on the idea that we were top carnivores, given that the 🧠 requires glucose as a nutrient source]
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Study explains early humans ate starch — and why it matters
Findings on Neanderthal oral microbiomes offer new clues on evolution, health.
news.harvard.edu
October 31, 2026 at 4:58 PM
[Both Neanderthals & ancient humans had starch-adapted strains in their dental plaque
- It seems to be a very HUMAN-SPECIFIC evolutionary trait -
The findings push back on the idea that we were top carnivores, given that the 🧠 requires glucose as a nutrient source]
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
- It seems to be a very HUMAN-SPECIFIC evolutionary trait -
The findings push back on the idea that we were top carnivores, given that the 🧠 requires glucose as a nutrient source]
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Out now in @natcomms.nature.com: We found a plasmid in a preterm infant’s gut microbiome that’s 1.58 million base pairs long, about 30X the size of a typical E. coli plasmid. Then we found its relatives in hundreds of microbiomes worldwide. Read on to learn more about the elusive pMEGAs! 🧵
Identification and genetic characterization of megabase-scale plasmids of Enterobacteriaceae - Nature Communications
Here, the authors report the identification and characterization of large, up to 1.58 million base-pair-long plasmids in gut microbiomes worldwide, showing that while most genes remain uncharacterized...
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October 27, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Out now in @natcomms.nature.com: We found a plasmid in a preterm infant’s gut microbiome that’s 1.58 million base pairs long, about 30X the size of a typical E. coli plasmid. Then we found its relatives in hundreds of microbiomes worldwide. Read on to learn more about the elusive pMEGAs! 🧵
Begging scientist podcasters who cover papers about Indigenous people's microbiomes ALSO cover Microbiome ownership for Indigenous peoples and/or Race In the Microbiome.
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Microbiome ownership for Indigenous peoples - Nature Microbiology
This Perspective argues that microbiome ownership needs to be considered in microbiome research involving Indigenous peoples.
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October 28, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Begging scientist podcasters who cover papers about Indigenous people's microbiomes ALSO cover Microbiome ownership for Indigenous peoples and/or Race In the Microbiome.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An investigation published last week in npj Biofilms and Microbiomes virtually screened 23 million compounds against MCR, experimentally tested selected compounds, and then used structure-guided optimization; the lead compound, PZON, led to 73-98% inhibition.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com
November 1, 2026 at 2:12 AM
An investigation published last week in npj Biofilms and Microbiomes virtually screened 23 million compounds against MCR, experimentally tested selected compounds, and then used structure-guided optimization; the lead compound, PZON, led to 73-98% inhibition.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A plasmid that’s 1.58 million base pairs long, about 30X the size of a typical E. coli plasmid. Its relatives were found in hundreds of microbiomes worldwide.
#MicroSky
#MicroSky
Out now in @natcomms.nature.com: We found a plasmid in a preterm infant’s gut microbiome that’s 1.58 million base pairs long, about 30X the size of a typical E. coli plasmid. Then we found its relatives in hundreds of microbiomes worldwide. Read on to learn more about the elusive pMEGAs! 🧵
Identification and genetic characterization of megabase-scale plasmids of Enterobacteriaceae - Nature Communications
Here, the authors report the identification and characterization of large, up to 1.58 million base-pair-long plasmids in gut microbiomes worldwide, showing that while most genes remain uncharacterized...
www.nature.com
October 27, 2026 at 4:34 PM
A plasmid that’s 1.58 million base pairs long, about 30X the size of a typical E. coli plasmid. Its relatives were found in hundreds of microbiomes worldwide.
#MicroSky
#MicroSky
Very nice perspective piece about the transition towards planetary microbial systems biology
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Toward planetary microbial systems biology
Planetary microbial systems biology, encompassing multi-omics, AI, and field-to-lab
interaction, is proposed as a framework to study Earth’s interconnected microbiomes
at a planetary scale.
www.cell.com
October 29, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Very nice perspective piece about the transition towards planetary microbial systems biology
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
"Unnecessary antibiotics provide no benefit, but pose risk of adverse events, allergic reactions, and disruption of healthy microbiomes, which can provide an opening for opportunistic pathogens, such as C. difficile (which is classified as a “serious threat” in the CDC’s newly updated report)."
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Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren't even good arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren't even good
Faked symptoms still point to infections that antibiotics don't treat.
arstechnica.com
October 31, 2026 at 1:28 PM
"Unnecessary antibiotics provide no benefit, but pose risk of adverse events, allergic reactions, and disruption of healthy microbiomes, which can provide an opening for opportunistic pathogens, such as C. difficile (which is classified as a “serious threat” in the CDC’s newly updated report)."
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Folk want cabinets of biodiversity curiosities, not functioning ecological systems. I visited the Eden Project this week and maybe it’s what people want in the UK: microbiomes with their favourite species. And pay for that.
But don't forget: Matt Ridley is the original Liz Truss. When he tanked Northern Rick, causing the first run on a UK bank since 1878, everyone else was to blame. It was probably the badgers that did that too.
What is it with the right wing that they’d rather blame creatures other than humans for nature’s decline?
And their solution is to kill more wildlife?
And their solution is to kill more wildlife?
October 30, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Folk want cabinets of biodiversity curiosities, not functioning ecological systems. I visited the Eden Project this week and maybe it’s what people want in the UK: microbiomes with their favourite species. And pay for that.
performing a deep, fungal-focused study on edward sharpe's dick and the microbiomes within
October 30, 2026 at 4:57 PM
performing a deep, fungal-focused study on edward sharpe's dick and the microbiomes within
Host identity drives distinct prokaryotic and microeukaryotic microbiomes across four cold-water coral species in a near-pristine Mediterranean reef. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.30.763042v1
November 1, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Host identity drives distinct prokaryotic and microeukaryotic microbiomes across four cold-water coral species in a near-pristine Mediterranean reef. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.30.763042v1
#MicroSky: A new special issue on Plant-Microbe Interactions in the Plant Holobiont, featuring research on plant microbiomes, microbial ecology, plant health, and sustainable agricultural systems. We welcome Opinion articles, Highlights, (mini)Reviews, Research articles & Brief reports. SUBMIT NOW
October 29, 2026 at 11:02 AM
#MicroSky: A new special issue on Plant-Microbe Interactions in the Plant Holobiont, featuring research on plant microbiomes, microbial ecology, plant health, and sustainable agricultural systems. We welcome Opinion articles, Highlights, (mini)Reviews, Research articles & Brief reports. SUBMIT NOW
Algal symbiosis adaptively restructures the cnidarian microbiome to enhance holobiont metabolism | Nature Communications
Algal symbiosis adaptively restructures the cnidarian microbiome to enhance holobiont metabolism - Nature Communications
Cnidarian-algal symbioses help corals thrive in nutrient-poor oceans. This study shows that algal symbiosis reshapes tissue-specific microbiomes, promoting bacterial nitrogen assimilation and essential amino acid production.
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November 2, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Algal symbiosis adaptively restructures the cnidarian microbiome to enhance holobiont metabolism | Nature Communications
Maybe nature has a plan, and is fighting back, after all most of our bodies are not quite made up of us, but a mix of all sorts of microbiomes
Maybe Mother Nature puts a thumb on the scales of some viral behaviors and lets nature take its course to rid itself of, as Agent Smith might say, a virus.
Maybe Mother Nature puts a thumb on the scales of some viral behaviors and lets nature take its course to rid itself of, as Agent Smith might say, a virus.
October 30, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Maybe nature has a plan, and is fighting back, after all most of our bodies are not quite made up of us, but a mix of all sorts of microbiomes
Maybe Mother Nature puts a thumb on the scales of some viral behaviors and lets nature take its course to rid itself of, as Agent Smith might say, a virus.
Maybe Mother Nature puts a thumb on the scales of some viral behaviors and lets nature take its course to rid itself of, as Agent Smith might say, a virus.
🔬 From Microbiomes to Proteins!
Session two at #GSCCollaboratorForum explores how proteomics and metagenomics advance discovery across health and agriculture.
Thanks to Drs. Leluo Guan, Enoch Tin, David Goodlett & Chad Whitman from Olink for sharing their expertise!
#Proteomics #Metagenomics
Session two at #GSCCollaboratorForum explores how proteomics and metagenomics advance discovery across health and agriculture.
Thanks to Drs. Leluo Guan, Enoch Tin, David Goodlett & Chad Whitman from Olink for sharing their expertise!
#Proteomics #Metagenomics
October 29, 2026 at 7:43 PM
🔬 From Microbiomes to Proteins!
Session two at #GSCCollaboratorForum explores how proteomics and metagenomics advance discovery across health and agriculture.
Thanks to Drs. Leluo Guan, Enoch Tin, David Goodlett & Chad Whitman from Olink for sharing their expertise!
#Proteomics #Metagenomics
Session two at #GSCCollaboratorForum explores how proteomics and metagenomics advance discovery across health and agriculture.
Thanks to Drs. Leluo Guan, Enoch Tin, David Goodlett & Chad Whitman from Olink for sharing their expertise!
#Proteomics #Metagenomics
Toward planetary microbial systems biology: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Toward planetary microbial systems biology
Planetary microbial systems biology, encompassing multi-omics, AI, and field-to-lab
interaction, is proposed as a framework to study Earth’s interconnected microbiomes
at a planetary scale.
www.cell.com
November 2, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Toward planetary microbial systems biology: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...