The vaginal microbiome: how to look after it – and what to avoid
Probiotic supplements claimed to ‘support the vaginal flora’ are being promoted online. But is there even a problem to be fixed?
‘Us girls, we have a lot of problems down there and it’s an absolute nightmare,” one influencer says on TikTok, like a seasoned teleshopping host. She reels off a list

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/11/the-vaginal-microbiome-how-to-look-after-it-and-what-to-avoid

#WomensHealth #WomensBodies #health #vagina #MicroBiome #ProBiotic #advertising #influencers

IOB & ICB
We celebrate #scientist & #artist Tosha Kelly(ICB & IOB author)
(@)BirdBrainTosh on X for
#SciArtSeptember

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/colorful-jay-tosha-kelly.html

& read her IOB co authored work

No guts about it: captivity, but not neophobia #phenotype, influences the cloacal #microbiome of house #sparrows
Kelly et al

https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obac010

There were also these fun inforgraphics about relationship with our microbiome from cradle to grave #microbiology #microbiome

#Sleep Deprivation Breaks Your #Microbiome, Which Breaks Your #Brain : Medium

Brief periods of #Dangerous #Humid #Heat arrive decades early : NOAA

Why #Mathematical #Proof Is a #SocialCompact : Quanta Mag

Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

🥳 We are so delighted to welcome a new Research Group to @maxplanckgesellschaft: The Ayele Argaw Denboba lab joins our institute in #freiburg with exciting projects on #microbiome, #epigenome and #inheritance .

Ayele and his team will explore microbiome-epigenome interactions in early-life programming and plans to identify the epigenetic mechanisms by which gut microbiome-mediated effects are transmitted across generations.

Learn more about Ayele in this interview: https://www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/5786033/2023_09_07_New-Max-Planck-Group---Ayele-Argaw-Denboba_en

New talk alert! #ElZoominario: short scientific talks by #LatinxInSTEM

Geo Santiago-Martinez talks about #methane-producing #microorganisms and why #Oaxaca has everything! 🇲🇽

https://youtu.be/Rf0BrgU1KCc

#ciencia #ciencialatina #archaea #bacteria #microbiome #evolution #ecology #astrobiology

Costly expression of #virulence factors by #Salmonella elicits gut inflammation, which in turn promotes #pathogen blooms. This study explains the tight connection between #microbiome complexity & evolution of Salmonella virulence #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/44BbHSb

Acne bacteria aid
The skin's functioning and aid
Balance of the skin

#acne #skincare #microbiome #haiku #poetry

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/could-acne-bacteria-actually-help-skin-barrier-function

Reminder that unnecessary use of #antibiotics can actively promote / select for #resistance #AMR

#IDMastodon #microbiology #microbiome #medicine #infectiousdiseases @microbiology @infectiousdiseases

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40872-z

最新研究显示，通过肠道微生物组的宏基因组学分析，我们或许能够区分帕金森病患者、潜在症状患者和健康人群。这为早期诊断和干预提供了新方向。了解更多，点击链接了解研究详情：https://jwat.ch/3E6crDZ @MichaelOkun #Parkinsons #NeuroTwitter #microbiome. 🔗https://nitter.privacydev.net/JWatch/status/1694039997761105977#m

Microbiomes drive Planetary Health: Unter diesem Titel bündeln 30 Wissenschafter*innen um den Uni Wien-Mikrobiologen Michael Wagner ihre Kompetenzen. Gemeinsam möchten sie erforschen, wie Mikrobiome die Gesundheit unseres Planeten steuern und mit diesem Wissen das Verständnis des globalen Wandels und Lösungen für eine nachhaltige Zukunft entscheidend voranbringen. Mehr dazu ⤵ 🦠

https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/media/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/die-bedeutung-von-mikrobiomen-fuer-die-planetare-gesundheit-verstehen/

@fwf #clusterofexcellence #microbiome

Join #ScienceWebinars for their next #technology broadcast on Wednesday, 23 August at 12 p.m. ET ➡️ Learning to coexist: How the interplay between the #microbiome and the immune system impacts human health.

Register today: https://scim.ag/3OM #webinar

An abstract: Horse gut may be a source of antibiotic-resistant microbes. https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3276589/v1

and this is the article:
https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-023-01465-6

#microbiome #antimicrobialresistance #AMR

Deciphering the Chemical Language of Microbiomes

Marnix Medema at #JGI2023

#JGI #microbiome #microbiology #genomics @LBNLBioSci

🦠 🔬 Das Geheimnis des #Mikrobioms entdecken? Forscher*innen @CECAD der #UniKöln enthüllen, wie winzige Lebewesen in unserem Körper unser #Altern und unsere #Gesundheit beeinflussen ⏳ Mehr dazu im neuen #UniMagazin ➡️ https://uni.koeln/LP8GJ

🦠 🔬 Discovering the secret of the #microbiome? Researchers @CECAD at #UniKöln reveal how tiny creatures in our bodies influence our #aging and #health ⏳ Read more in the new #UniMagazin ➡️ https://uni.koeln/2HBBV

Essential reading for anyone writing anything about the microbiome! Alan Walker & Lesley Hoyles summarize & debunk common myths about #microbiome research.
RIP these myths:
🚫Microbes outnumber your human cells 10:1
🚫Firmicutes: Bacteroidetes ratio is altered in obesity
🚫 Sequencing is unbiased and reveals the 'truth' about a microbiome sample

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01426-7
#science #scicomm

New NIOO publication: Impact of the fungal #pathogen Fusarium oxysporum on the taxonomic and functional diversity of the common bean root #microbiome. #rhizosphere #endosphere #metagenome #metatranscriptome
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-023-00524-7

Human gut #microbiome variation is linked to many diseases and associates with race/#ethnicity, but when does it arise? @lizmallott @Symbionticism &co show that race-associated variation is absent in newborns, but evident in infants from 3 months of age #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3YBYWW5

Importance of collecting all possible biological samples when carrying out any #RCT (this one was about #probiotic interventions).

Now analysing stool #microbiome has detected (predictably) significant level of #antimicrobial #resistance (#AMR).
#medicine #IDMastodon #microbiology
https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(23)00362-2/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

The microbiome is a fascinating area of research, but…
“Distortions, legends, and falsehoods. The microbiome, as it turns out, is full of them. We should tread carefully.”
#Science #microbiome #Scicomm #Medicine #Probiotics #Bacteria

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition/microbiome-and-its-myth-making-machine