Confronting risks of mirror life
Broad discussion is needed to chart a path forward.
Gearing up vs the potential of building "mirror life"
A looming danger of bioengineered reversed-chirality bacteria and microbes.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org
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Glad to share our preprint 🏃 **LongTrack**: long read metagenomics-based precise tracking of bacterial strains (and their genomic changes!) after 💩 fecal microbiota transplantation. A 4+ years journey and tour de force by ** @yufan01.bsky.social ** & team. A long 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Combinatorial, additive and dose-dependent drug–microbiome associations
Nature - An analysis of 2,173 individuals from the MetaCardis cohort quantifies the individual and combinatorial effects of a range of drugs on host health, metabolome and gut microbiome in...
"Combinatorial, additive and dose-dependent drug–microbiome associations" by @inanna-nalytica.bsky.social investigates data from patients with cardiovascular disease within the MetaCardis consortium to disentangle the effect of drug combinations and other confounders (2021)
www.nature.com/artic...
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This is figure 4, which shows collateral sensitivity and cross-resistance interactions between and within antibiotic classes.
Resistance to one antibiotic can make bacteria resistant or sensitive to another antibiotic, opening paths for combinatorial treatments. A study in Nature Microbiology presents an approach to systematically discover and understand such antibiotic relationships. https://go.nature.com/49of3Mk 🧪
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An array of fruits and vegetables. Stock image.
A study in Scientific Reports finds that both high fruit and high vegetable intake were associated with lower depressive symptoms in people over 45 years old. Only moderate vegetable intakes were associated with lower depressive symptoms. https://go.nature.com/3ZDOIGL 🧪
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