Whether the human fetus and the prenatal intrauterine environment (amniotic fluid and
placenta) are stably colonized by microbial communities in a healthy pregnancy remains a …

New methods and technologies within the field of lung biology are beginning to shed new
light into the microbial world of the respiratory tract. Long considered to be a sterile …

Tumor-resident intracellular microbiota is an emerging tumor component that has been
documented for a variety of cancer types with unclear biological functions. Here, we …

The human body hosts vast microbial communities, termed the microbiome. Less well
known is the fact that the human body also hosts vast numbers of different viruses …

Background Recent evidence suggests a role for the microbiome in pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (PDAC) aetiology and progression. Objective To explore the faecal and …

Lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic include increased awareness of the potential
for zoonoses and emerging infectious diseases that can adversely affect human health …

The interplay between the commensal microbiota and the mammalian immune system
development and function includes multifold interactions in homeostasis and disease. The …

Bacteria were first detected in human tumors more than 100 years ago, but the
characterization of the tumor microbiome has remained challenging because of its low …

Systematic characterization of the cancer microbiome provides the opportunity to develop
techniques that exploit non-human, microorganism-derived molecules in the diagnosis of a …

Reconstruction of target genomes from sequence data produced by instruments that are
agnostic as to the species-of-origin may be confounded by contaminant DNA. Whether …