Christina Nowicki

TL;DR: It is reported that unadjuvanted seasonal influenza vaccination via intratumoral, but not intramuscular, injection converts “cold” tumors to hot, generates systemic CD8+ T cell-mediated antitumor immunity, and sensitizes resistant tumors to checkpoint blockade, and proposes that antipathogen vaccines may be utilized for both infection prevention and repurposing as a cancer immunotherapy.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors compared three different sample types in women, namely stool brought from home vs. solid stool samples obtained at the time of an unprepped sigmoidoscopy vs. biopsies of the colonic mucosa, using alpha and beta diversity metrics following bacterial 16S rRNA sequencing.

TL;DR: The data shows that alpha and beta diversity metrics differ between sampling methods (home-collected stool, endoscopically collected stool, and colonic biopsies) when looking at the composition of the gut microbiome in BC.