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Enhancing Plastic Decomposition in Mealworms (Tenebrio molitor): The Role of Nutritional Amino Acids and Water

Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
The decomposition of single‐use plastics by selected insects is often sustained or enhanced through the addition of natural supplements or feeds. Herein, the rationale behind these choices is demonstrated by examining the effects of selected amino acids and water as enhancers in the biodegradation of polystyrene by mealworms.
Xinbo Wang, Ruoxin Du, Felipe Nunes Henriquez, Hongming Liu, Sze Yung Chan, Chi Man Leong, Matthew Y. Lui   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing and Interpreting the Within-Body Biogeography of Human Microbiome Diversity

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018
A human body hosts a relatively independent microbiome including five major regional biomes (i.e., airway, oral, gut, skin, and urogenital). Each of them may possess different regional characteristics with important implications to our health and ...
Zhanshan Ma, Zhanshan Ma, Lianwei Li, Lianwei Li, Wendy Li, Wendy Li   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Network analysis reveals a potentially 'evil' alliance of opportunistic pathogens inhibited by a cooperative network in human milk bacterial communities [PDF]

arXiv, 2014
The critical importance of human milk to infants and even human civilization has been well established. Although the human milk microbiome has received increasing attention with the expansion of research on the human microbiome, our understanding of the milk microbiome has been limited to cataloguing OTUs and computation of community diversity indexes.
arxiv  

An argument for using anaerobes as microbial cell factories to advance synthetic biology and biomanufacturing

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Anaerobes thrive in the absence of oxygen and are an untapped reservoir of biotechnological potential. Therefore, bioprospecting efforts focused on anaerobic microbial diversity could rapidly uncover new enzymes, pathways, and chassis organisms to drive biotechnology innovation.
Thomas S. Lankiewicz, Nathalie H. Elisabeth, David L. Valentine, Michelle A. O'Malley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research

mSystems, 2018
Although much work has linked the human microbiome to specific phenotypes and lifestyle variables, data from different projects have been challenging to integrate and the extent of microbial and molecular diversity in human stool remains unknown.
Daniel McDonald, Embriette Hyde, Justine W. Debelius, James T. Morton, Antonio Gonzalez, Gail Ackermann, Alexander A. Aksenov, Bahar Behsaz, Caitriona Brennan, Yingfeng Chen, Lindsay DeRight Goldasich, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Robert R. Dunn, Ashkaan K. Fahimipour, James Gaffney, Jack A. Gilbert, Grant Gogul, Jessica L. Green, Philip Hugenholtz, Greg Humphrey, Curtis Huttenhower, Matthew A. Jackson, Stefan Janssen, Dilip V. Jeste, Lingjing Jiang, Scott T. Kelley, Dan Knights, Tomasz Kosciolek, Joshua Ladau, Jeff Leach, Clarisse Marotz, Dmitry Meleshko, Alexey V. Melnik, Jessica L. Metcalf, Hosein Mohimani, Emmanuel Montassier, Jose Navas-Molina, Tanya T. Nguyen, Shyamal Peddada, Pavel Pevzner, Katherine S. Pollard, Gholamali Rahnavard, Adam Robbins-Pianka, Naseer Sangwan, Joshua Shorenstein, Larry Smarr, Se Jin Song, Timothy Spector, Austin D. Swafford, Varykina G. Thackray, Luke R. Thompson, Anupriya Tripathi, Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza, Alison Vrbanac, Paul Wischmeyer, Elaine Wolfe, Qiyun Zhu, Rob Knight   +57 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multiple Sampling Capsule Robot for Studying Gut Microbiome

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A multiple sampling capsule robot (MSCR) is developed for longitudinal gut microbiome analysis. Employing electromagnetic field control, the MSCR can locomote actively, precisely align the selected channel, and collect up to six microbiome samples with minimal cross‐contamination.
Sanghyeon Park, Manh Cuong Hoang, Jayoung Kim, Sukho Park   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gut Microbiome Pilot Study of Patients With CHARGE Syndrome and Sibling Controls

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Difficulties with feeding and digestion are common in individuals with CHARGE syndrome. Animal models with CHD7 gene variants demonstrate abnormal gut innovation and dysmotility. Our pilot study evaluated whether individuals with CHARGE syndrome have differences in their gut microbiome compared to unaffected siblings.
Emily R. Chedrawe, Jessica Connors, Angela Arra, Katherine Dunn, Kim Blake, Johan van Limbergen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alterations in gut microbiota and metabolites contribute to postoperative sleep disturbances

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
In this study, we classified postoperative patients into poor sleepers (PS) and good sleepers (GS) based on the bispectral index (BIS), and transplanted their fecal microbiota to pseudo‐germ‐free rats to analyze the sleep changes in rats and the potential mechanism.
Hui Zhong, Meiru Jiang, Kun Yuan, Fang Sheng, Xiuyun Xu, Yong Cui, Xijia Sun, Wenfei Tan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Capsaicin combined with dietary fiber prevents high‐fat diet associated aberrant lipid metabolism by improving the structure of intestinal flora

Food Science &Nutrition, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 114-125, January 2023., 2023
In conclusion, notwithstanding the rats were fed a high‐fat diet, adding CAP plus fibers to the chow improved the lipidemia and increased the gut beneficial bacterial strains, while reducing the harmful ones as compared with CAP alone. Abstract Capsaicin (CAP) and dietary fibers are natural active ingredients that given separately do positively affect ...
Ting Gong, Yujing Zhou, Lei Zhang, Haizhu Wang, Min Zhang, Xiong Liu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bayesian compositional regression with flexible microbiome feature aggregation and selection [PDF]

arXiv
Ongoing advances in microbiome profiling have allowed unprecedented insights into the molecular activities of microbial communities. This has fueled a strong scientific interest in understanding the critical role the microbiome plays in governing human health, by identifying microbial features associated with clinical outcomes of interest.
arxiv