Jeroen Raes

TL;DR: The first large-scale exposomics study focused on chronic low-grade inflammation was presented in this article, where the cumulative influences of environmental and food contaminants throughout the lifespan on certain biological responses related to chronic gut inflammation was investigated in two Flemish prospective cohorts, namely the "ENVIRONAGE birth cohort", which provides follow-up from gestation to early childhood, and the "Flemish Gut Flora Project longitudinal cohort", a cohort of adults.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the impact of wheat bran with reduced particle size (WB RPS) on colonic fermentation and host health in normal-weight (NW) and obese (OB) participants compared with placebo (PL).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined potential confounders in COVID-19 microbiome studies by analyzing the upper and lower respiratory tract microbiome in well-phenotyped COVID19 patients and controls combining microbiome sequencing, viral load determination, and immunoprofiling.

TL;DR: This Special Issue is a timely exploration and expansion both of the knowledge of microbiomes in different systems and of ways to study microbiomes more effectively, and new ways to acquire information from DNA sequences obtained using high-throughput sequencing approaches.