With the rapidly growing interests in microbiome research, we are here to facilitate discussions and post-publication reviews. PM if you have a story to share.
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One should also consider that many of the health benefits claimed by these prebiotics/probiotics products in the supermarkets have limited scientific evidence of support.
It would be fantastic if major supermarkets had in-store educational information for consumers about the products that helped with gut health @sainsburys @Tesco @asda @waitrose @marksandspencer #aneasywaytoimprovethenationshealth
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Review combining 26 papers on gut microbiota changes in children with autism spectrum disorder:
"These results were inadequate to confirm a global microbiome change in children with ASD and causality could not be inferred"
link.springer.com/article/10…
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Responsible stewardship for communicating microbiome research to the press and public. @NatureMedicine
nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
The risk of fecal transplantation needs better assessment!
Patient dies from fecal transplant containing drug-resistant bacteria. nbcnews.com/health/health-ne… via @nbcnews
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No, we don’t know that gum disease causes Alzheimer’s sciencenews.org/article/gum-… via @AddThis
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Technology is not evil, but scientists who use it can be.
newscientist.com/article/218…
What are your thoughts on the Glyphosate and bee microbiome study (Anonymous comments welcome)?
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What this study (goo.gl/kk9DDL ) found: Infants with higher BMI tended to be associated with more household disinfectant use, and the relative abundance of particular bacterial FAMILIES appeared different.
News: Disinfectants make your baby fat through the microbiome!
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We are skeptical about exaggerated benefits of probiotics, but where in hell does this paper (goo.gl/qz8GLh) show probiotics are "useless and can actually hurt you"?!?!??! 1/3
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"The outcome was striking...the microbes found in faeces were not representative of those that had colonised the gut".
This is known for a long time. Why is it striking that fecal microbiome is distinguishable from the gut when you know some microbes colonize some dont? 2/3.
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Microbiome Watch retweeted
Eep, watch out for this press release -- the microbiome hype factor is super high. And it concerns a vulnerable group. Not cool.
To set the record straight:
- This was a mouse study only
- No, preventing autism is clearly not as simple as altering diet...
newswise.com/articles/view/6…
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Microbiome Watch retweeted
I dont have a PhD from Harvard, but I'm going to say the skincare based on your DNA is BS.
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A caveat with OTU that wasn't discussed much is the use of a uniform %identify threshold across all taxa (say, 97%). Variation shall be considered species-by-species.
Our research group still mainly uses on OTU's , but it does seem that many are moving to ASV's. Here's a nice article from nature that describes some of the pros and cons of OTU's vs ASV's. nature.com/articles/ismej201…
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"Best practice" sounds a bit of an over statement but the trend from taxa to functions is predicted.
The changing face of microbiome analysis. Moving from merely taxa classification to a multi omics approach
nature.com/articles/s41579-0…
Instead of generalizing that "fibers are good for your microbiome". We need more meta-analyses and consider the genotype difference! academic.oup.com/ajcn/articl…
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Do you believe in stable, unique microbiome marker as signature to ID an individual? asm.org/index.php/2-uncatego…
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"scientists have yet to define what an optimally healthy microbiome looks like, if there’s even such a thing."
self.com/story/getting-your-… via @SELFmagazine
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When someone says: "No guts no glory", we try to stay away...
sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
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