npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
The aim of this journal is to serve as a comprehensive platform to promote biofilms and microbiomes research across a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines.
Body weight index indicates the responses of the fecal microbiota, metabolome and proteome to beef/chicken-based diet alterations in Chinese volunteers
This work highlighted the role of BMI as an important factor predicting changes in gut homeostasis in response to meat consumption. Compared with the chicken-based diet, the beef-based diet may induce more allergic and inflammation-related responses in high- and middle- BMI Chinese.
Understanding pathoadaptation of the periodontal microbiome
It is now becoming critical to understand how a synergistic community of virulent bacteria can persist below the gum line, modulate inflammatory responses, and promote gum infections and inflammation, with strong implications in several systemic diseases in adults.
Exploring donor difference in neonatal fecal microbiota transplantation
Using a controlled preterm piglet model, we found rectal fecal microbiota transplantation manifested clinically and microbiologically in a donor-dependent manner. Metagenomic analysis revealed strain-level phylogenetic separation of the engrafted lactobacilli strains according to the donors.
