Emma Allen-Vercoe

TL;DR: Gut physiology is important for cardiac repair, and the circadian system influences the beneficial gut responses to improve post-MI and HF outcomes, but these benefits are not observed in MI mice fed during their sleep time.

TL;DR: A new study provides mechanistic insight into the carcinogenic potential of human colonic mucosal microbial biofilms, confirming that both microbiota composition and organization along with the host inflammatory response are contributing factors to creating the ‘perfect storm’ in terms of colorectal carcinogenesis.

TL;DR: The human gut microbiota is a complex community of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes and viral particles that is increasingly associated with many aspects of host physiology and health as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: These preliminary data support an association between F. varium intestinal infection and UC disease activity and the use of qPCR rather than culture and terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) in a much larger cohort of patients stratified according to disease severity is technically and methodologically superior to procedures used in the prior studies.

TL;DR: Current evidence suggests that immediate action is needed by regulatory authorities in amending safety assessments for “non-antimicrobial” pesticides; and that the development of host-free microbiome model systems could be useful for rapidly screening pesticides against functionally distinct microbial catalogues of interest.