Yingfeng Chen

TL;DR: The utility of the living data resource and cross-cohort comparison is demonstrated to confirm existing associations between the microbiome and psychiatric illness and to reveal the extent of microbiome change within one individual during surgery, providing a paradigm for open microbiome research and education.

TL;DR: Large-scale analyses of the relationship of age and sex to gut bacterial diversity in adult cohorts from four geographic regions found sex-dependent differences that were more pronounced in younger adults than in middle-aged adults, with women having higher alpha diversity than men.

TL;DR: It is shown that a citizen-science, self-selected cohort shipping samples through the mail at room temperature recaptures many known microbiome results from clinically collected cohorts and reveals new ones, and that the extent of microbiome change after events such as surgery can exceed differences between distinct environmental biomes.

TL;DR: In three of the four cohorts, a strong positive association between age and alpha diversity in young adults that plateaued after age 40 was observed, and women had higher alpha diversity than men in the US and UK cohort, with a reduced difference above age 40.

TL;DR: In this paper , the influence of konjac glucomannan (KGM) on the digestive performance of a plant-based fishball (PFB) analogue during in vitro digestion via nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and rheological measurements was assessed.