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The microbiology of ageing
January 16, 2025
Staring down the barrel of my 45th birthday and following fresh on the heels of discovering that my hair was no longer blond, but actually grey, I turned to worrying about what I might die of and if there was anything I can do about it. This journey led me to write Live Forever? A curious scientist’s guide to ageing, wellness and death. One of the things that clearly emerged from this was the central role that microbes play in our ageing, especially their interplay with the immune system.
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Reviving Tradition: Fermented Milk Products as a Source of Gut-Healthy Probiotics for Obesity
December 17, 2024
Dr Muhammad Nadeem Khan takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Dairy-based multi-strain probiotic community successfully mitigated obesity-related gut microbiota dysbiosis in vitro (CoMiniGut)' published in Journal of Medical Microbiology.
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Microbial Mayhem: the impact of persistent critical illness
November 26, 2024
Emily Tang takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Lower gastrointestinal tract dysbiosis in persistent critical illness: a systematic review' published in Journal of Medical Microbiology.
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Penguin gut microbiomes are potential indicators of Antarctic ecosystems
October 30, 2024
Dr Wen Chyin Yew takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Seasonal variation in the stomach microbiota of two sympatrically breeding Pygoscelis penguin species at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands' published in Microbiology.
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Caesarean section infants’ gut microbiome differences are driven by delivery mode, not by antibiotic exposure.
August 2, 2024
Sophie Leech takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Delivery mode is a larger determinant of infant gut microbiome composition at 6 weeks than exposure to peripartum antibiotics' published in Microbial Genomics.
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Decoding Huge Phage Diversity: A Taxonomic Classification of Enormous Viral Genomes
July 4, 2024
Dr Ryan Cook takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication ‘Decoding huge phage diversity: a taxonomic classification of Lak megaphages’ published in Journal of General Virology.
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Microbe Talk - Roots of resistance: exploring AMR in ancient mouths
June 13, 2024
For this episode of Microbe Talk Clare was joined by the wonderful Gwyn Dahlquist-Axe and Francesca Standeven, archaeological scientists who study AMR and ancient human oral microbiomes. They're on the podcast to discuss their review into diet, disease and antibiotic resistance from ancient human oral microbiomes published in Microbial Genomics.
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Delving into the Diversity of Fusobacterium nucleatum
June 7, 2024
Claire Crowley takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Fusobacterium nucleatum subsp. polymorphum recovered from malignant and potentially malignant oral disease exhibit heterogeneity in adhesion phenotypes and adhesin gene copy number, shaped by inter-subspecies horizontal gene transfer and recombination-derived mosaicism' published in Microbial Genomics.