Fiona Crispie

TL;DR: Despite the presence of a normal gut microbiome in early postnatal life, reduced abundance and diversity of the gut microbiota from weaning influences adult behaviours and key neuromodulators of the microbiota-gut-brain axis suggesting that dysregulation of this axis in the post-weaning period may contribute to the pathogenesis of disorders associated with altered anxiety and cognition.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that, in a human distal colon model, the addition of each of the three antimicrobials resulted in a significant decrease in numbers of C. difficile, and tested this hypothesis using thuricin CD, a narrow-spectrum bacteriocin produced by Bacillus thuringiensis, which was equally effective at killing C.difficile.

TL;DR: This study is one of the first to show that differences in intestinal microbiota composition, albeit subtle, may partly explain improved feed efficiency (FE) in low residual feed intake (RFI) pigs.

TL;DR: A detailed analysis was carried out to determine how the microbial population, gene content, and flavor of three kefirs from distinct geographic locations change over the course of 24-h fermentations and detected genes associated with probiotic functionalities in the kefir microbiome.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared 19,207 cases of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.7/SGTF, 436 B. 1.1/S gene target failure (SGTF), and 352 P.