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🧵12 scientific Twitter accounts you should go follow for the latest updates on #GutMicrobiome-host interaction research: 🦠👩🔬🧪⬇️
#aging #immune #nutrition #probiotics #brain #SciComm
#aging #immune #nutrition #probiotics #brain #SciComm
1/12. @bykriscampbell - Kristina Campbell, MSc, is a #SciComm extraordinaire. Her tweets give excellent summaries of cutting edge #GutMicrobiome-host publications primarily #FMT #probiotics and #Disease
2/12. @john_damianosMD - Dr. John Damianos tweets about all things #Microbes and #Medicine. We're talking #Probiotics, #IBD, and more, from the prospective of a clinician.
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 01/16/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/01/16/dai…
21 Global Developments to Watch Over the Next Five Years
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#developments #watch #predicted
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#developments #watch #predicted
Yesterday, on the 1st day of the UK's #COVID19 lockdown, I started posting a daily #deepsea fact on my instagram (@diva_amon) to help amaze/excite/distract. Will cross-post them here also. Feel free to add comments/questions/etc. & I'll try to get to them #DivasDailyDeepSeaFact
DAY 1: The test used to diagnose #COVID19 & other pandemics was developed with the help of an enzyme isolated from a #microbe found in #DeepSea #HydrothermalVents & freshwater hot springs.
Video: @NERCscience @adrg1.
Fact: @WHOI.
#DivasDailyDeepSeaFact
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Video: @NERCscience @adrg1.
Fact: @WHOI.
#DivasDailyDeepSeaFact
whoi.edu/news-insights/…
DAY 2: #DeepSea life can be slow. Case in point: the Greenland #shark (Somniosus microcephalus) can live for >400 years & only becomes sexually mature at >150 years old. Yes, it took me a grand total of 2 posts to start talking about sex. I blame @Marahh2o. Video: @oceanexplorer
Posted slides from my talk for the @ucdavis "2019 ADVANCE Scholar Award Symposium" - talk was about #microbiomes #manels and the people who have inspired me to work on #STEMDiversity slideshare.net/phylogenomics/… #ucdavis #STEMDiversity 1/n
Also made a Wakelet of some of the Tweets from the Symposium - see wakelet.com/wake/2698e152-… #ucdavis #STEMDiversity 2/n
I thought I had recorded my talk using @camtasia but the audio part seems to have failed so I am going to go through my talk here by annotating some of my slides #ucdavis #STEMDiversity 3/n
And just today this new study further challenges the sterile #placenta! 👉 This team identified R. insidiosa as a bona fide resident at the placental basal plate..by using species-specific FISH probes to confirm + localize R. insidiosa within basal plate tissue specimens at term
1/1 From paper 👉 “We show that R. insidiosa is a bona fide resident in human #placental basal plate. It can access trophoblast cells in culture and within basal plate tissues where it localizes to intracellular single-membrane vacuoles and can replicate...”
2/2 “...However, the presence of R. insidiosa does not cause cell death and does not induce a pro-#inflammatory immune response suggesting that it is not harmful in and of itself...”
A team has grown functioning human #blood vessels in the lab (to help study stroke/#diabetes etc)👇 A truly impressive feat, but I’m worried this model system will not contain the organisms + #microbe/derived metabolites naturally present in human blood?: google.com/amp/s/www.the-…
For example, in this seminal study, @kadzuis and team demonstrated a significant effect of the gut #microbiome on mammalian blood metabolites (in germ-free mice): pnas.org/content/106/10… 
Or, this study identified novel associations b/t gut microbiota and fasting serum (#blood) levels of many #metabolites: fatty acids, amino acids, lipids + glucose☝️metabolites that can influence metabolic + cardiovascular disease traits: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
Article below present new evidence showing “good' bacteria in #probiotics could evolve in the gut to do harm” 👉 What??? Just kidding, of course they can:)☝️Key statement from article is: "There is no microbe out there that is immune to evolution”: sciencealert.com/experiments-su…
Also, what I wish these studies on evolving microbes would better consider is the state of a person’s #immune system 👉 Generally speaking a #microbe is less likely to evolve towards virulence if the immune response is “on its toes”☝️More context here: microbeminded.com/2018/03/01/tow…
Third as #probiotics are added to a growing # of consumer products, I think we could make more careful + intelligent decisions about using them if they were called “#organisms used for therapeutic purposes”☝️...as opposed to “friendly” microbes
Excellent example of how a #microbe (p. gingivalis acting as a persistent #pathogen and not a “trigger”) 👉 can modulate a “cell danger-type response” by dysregulating #mitochondrial metabolism (ATP signaling impacting ROS generation etc): ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28725…
In fact I’m keeping a very peeled eye on p. gingivalis these days 👉 B/c it’s also very interesting that p.gingivalis + the toxic proteases it creates (called gingipains) were recently identified in the #brains of #Alzheimer's patients: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30746…
Aaand this team just found that 👉 when p. gingivalis was fed to mice, it modulated gut #microbiome composition + the gut immune response in a manner that aggravated arthritis symptoms: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28761…
