Humans are the only species with a commensal Lactobacillus-dominant vaginal microbiota. Reproductive tract microbes have been linked to fertility outcomes, as has intrauterine inflammation, suggesting immune response may mediate adverse outcomes. In ...
AIM: This observational study aimed to verify and improve the predictive value of plaque microbiome of patients with dental implant for peri-implant diseases.
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jun 3, 2025
BACKGROUND: Fatigue is a prevalent and debilitating symptom of non-communicable diseases (NCDs); however, its biological basis are not well-defined. This exploratory study aimed to identify key biological drivers of fatigue by integrating metabolomic...
Early childhood caries (ECC) exhibits tooth specificity, highlighting the need for single-tooth-level prevention. We profiled 2,504 dental plaque microbiota samples from 89 preschoolers across two cohorts, tracking compositional changes with imputed ...
BACKGROUND: 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing is a widely used method for microbiome composition analysis due to its cost-effectiveness and lower data requirements compared to metagenomic whole-genome sequencing (WGS). However, inherent limitations in 16S...
Differentiating significant microbial community changes from normal fluctuations is vital for understanding microbial dynamics in human and environmental ecosystems. This knowledge could enable early warning systems to monitor critical changes affect...
We use open source human gut microbiome data to learn a microbial "language" model by adapting techniques from Natural Language Processing (NLP). Our microbial "language" model is trained in a self-supervised fashion (i.e., without additional externa...
Most microbiota determination (skin, gut, soil, etc.) are currently conducted in a laboratory using expensive equipment and lengthy procedures, including culture-dependent methods, nucleic acid amplifications (including quantitative PCR), DNA microar...
UNLABELLED: Gihawi et al. (mBio 14:e01607-23, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01607-23) argued that the analysis of tumor-associated microbiome data by Poore et al. (Nature 579:567-574, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2095-1) is invalid b...
Applied and environmental microbiology
Apr 30, 2025
Recent advances in next-generation sequencing have opened up new possibilities for applying the human microbiome in various fields, including forensics. Researchers have capitalized on the site-specific microbial communities found in different parts ...
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