Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) holds therapeutic promise beyond recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, but clinical outcomes remain unpredictable and donor-selection strategies remai...

Cultivation-dependent techniques, computational analyses and genome-scale metabolic models show widespread amino acid auxotrophies, suggesting that soil microorganisms exist within integrated ecologic...

Author summary Advancements in genomic sequencing analyses are increasingly allowing researchers to reconstruct the genomes of microbial ‘dark matter’—those microbial species that are difficult to iso...

Some new articles in the reading list. I’ll probably do a little break for those during the summer holidays. Have a good one! (a) Microbiome and population health Genomic landscape of the human vagina...

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Published online: 19 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41575-026-01215-7Dietary assessment commonly relies on asking people what they remember eating. Genomic methods can change this assessment, paralleling how DNA sequencing revolutionized microbiology. By identifying consumed foods directly from stool, these approaches offer an objective, scalable alternative that gastroenterology researchers can begin using today.

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 08 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41579-026-01311-0In this Review, Kern, Tofield, Frame and Elinav discuss recent advances in the design of next-generation probiotics, from identification of candidates to therapeutic applications across diverse disease contexts, and highlight major challenges and the potential of artificial intelligence to develop effective, personalized probiotics with therapeutic functions.

Genome-wide selective sweeps commonly occur in the human gut microbiome and can spread across the world within decades to produce epidemic-like population structures.

The myth of open data, reproducibility, responsibility, and accountability in science, and your role in it

Phage-bacteria interactions are typically studied in bulk culture, which obscures cell-cell differences. Here the authors study phage-bacteria interactions using single-cell transcriptomics, identifyi...

Nature Microbiology, Published online: 26 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02292-9Acetylcholine levels are reduced in gut dysmotility conditions. We find that gut acetylcholine levels induce a compensatory increase in gut microbiota urease activity and ammonia production. By upregulating presynaptic Cav2.1 calcium channels in enteric neurons, ammonia enhances calcium influx and restores acetylcholine release neurotransmission, revealing a microbiota-driven mechanism that preserves gut motility.

Prebiotic and probiotic interventions can induce therapeutically relevant shifts in the human microbiome, but their effects are variable across individuals. This study shows that metabolic models can ...

Nature Food - Accurately measuring dietary intake has long been a challenge in nutrition research. Integrating emerging tools with multisampling strategies and a dietary assessment methodology...

Accurately measuring dietary intake has long been a challenge in nutrition research. Integrating emerging tools with multisampling strategies and a dietary assessment methodology aligned with the rese...

EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General. 

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Diener et al. present a method that allows the estimation of dietary intake from human stool by detecting food-derived DNA in faecal metagenomes.

Symposium Schedule All presentation times are shown in Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00 / UTC -07:00) Time Talk / Session 9:00 Welcoming remarks by Sid Venkatesh Session One: Neural Effects

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Abstract. Metagenomic sequencing enables the in-depth study of microbes and their functions in humans, animals, and the environment. While sequencing data

Wastewater surveillance has become a powerful tool to monitor circulating viruses at a community level. Currently, most wastewater surveillance efforts use target-based approaches such as quantitative...

Background Human gut microbes metabolize food and host secretions, consuming and producing small molecules that are important to health and homeostasis. Here, we present an atlas of diet- and microbio...