New methods and technologies within the field of lung biology are beginning to shed new
light into the microbial world of the respiratory tract. Long considered to be a sterile …

The interplay between the commensal microbiota and the mammalian immune system
development and function includes multifold interactions in homeostasis and disease. The …

Background A novel coronavirus (CoV), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)–CoV-2,
has infected> 75 000 individuals and spread to> 20 countries. It is still unclear how fast the …

The mechanistic role of the airway microbiome in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD) remains largely unexplored. We present a landscape of airway microbe–host …

Oncogenic mutations in KRAS drive common metabolic programmes that facilitate tumour
survival, growth and immune evasion in colorectal carcinoma, non-small-cell lung cancer …

The revolution in microbiota research over the past decade has provided invaluable
knowledge about the function of the microbial species that inhabit the human body. It has …

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Asthma is a common chronic respiratory disease affecting more than 300 million people
worldwide. Clinical features of asthma and its immunological and molecular etiology vary …

In lung cancer, enrichment of the lower airway microbiota with oral commensals commonly
occurs, and ex vivo models support that some of these bacteria can trigger host …

The healthy lung was long thought of as sterile, but recent advances using molecular
sequencing approaches have detected bacteria at low levels. Healthy lung bacteria largely …