Microbiome-based therapeutics

MT Sorbara, EG Pamer - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Symbiotic microorganisms inhabiting the gastrointestinal tract promote health by decreasing
susceptibility to infection and enhancing resistance to a range of diseases. In this Review …

Microbiota-mediated colonization resistance: mechanisms and regulation

G Caballero-Flores, JM Pickard, G Núñez - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
A dense and diverse microbial community inhabits the gut and many epithelial surfaces.
Referred to as the microbiota, it co-evolved with the host and is beneficial for many host …

The person-to-person transmission landscape of the gut and oral microbiomes

M Valles-Colomer, A Blanco-Míguez, P Manghi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The human microbiome is an integral component of the human body and a co-determinant
of several health conditions,. However, the extent to which interpersonal relations shape the …

Variability of strain engraftment and predictability of microbiome composition after fecal microbiota transplantation across different diseases

G Ianiro, M Punčochář, N Karcher, S Porcari… - Nature Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is highly effective against recurrent Clostridioides
difficile infection and is considered a promising treatment for other microbiome-related …

Fecal microbiota transplant promotes response in immunotherapy-refractory melanoma patients

EN Baruch, I Youngster, G Ben-Betzalel, R Ortenberg… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The gut microbiome has been shown to influence the response of tumors to anti–PD-1
(programmed cell death–1) immunotherapy in preclinical mouse models and observational …

Key determinants of success in fecal microbiota transplantation: From microbiome to clinic

S Porcari, N Benech, M Valles-Colomer, N Segata… - Cell host & …, 2023 - cell.com
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has achieved satisfactory results in preventing the
recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection, but these positive outcomes have only been …

inStrain profiles population microdiversity from metagenomic data and sensitively detects shared microbial strains

MR Olm, A Crits-Christoph, K Bouma-Gregson… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Coexisting microbial cells of the same species often exhibit genetic variation that can affect
phenotypes ranging from nutrient preference to pathogenicity. Here we present inStrain, a …

[HTML][HTML] Elevated rates of horizontal gene transfer in the industrialized human microbiome

M Groussin, M Poyet, A Sistiaga, SM Kearney, K Moniz… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Industrialization has impacted the human gut ecosystem, resulting in altered microbiome
composition and diversity. Whether bacterial genomes may also adapt to the …

Microbial genes and pathways in inflammatory bowel disease

M Schirmer, A Garner, H Vlamakis… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Perturbations in the intestinal microbiome are implicated in inflammatory bowel disease
(IBD). Studies of treatment-naive patients have identified microbial taxa associated with …

Machine learning for microbiologists

F Asnicar, AM Thomas, A Passerini… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning is increasingly important in microbiology where it is used for tasks
such as predicting antibiotic resistance and associating human microbiome features with …