The microbiome of uncontacted Amerindians

by | Feb 21, 2018 | Publications

A study about the microbiome and resistome of members of an isolated Yanomami Amerindian village with no documented previous contact with Western people reveals that they harbor a microbiome with the highest diversity of bacteria and genetic functions ever reported in...

Cancer and the microbiota

by | Feb 21, 2018 | Publications

A host’s microbiota may increase, diminish, or have no effect at all on cáncer susceptibility. Assigning causal roles in cancer to specific microbes and microbiotas, unraveling host-microbiota interactions with environmental factors in carcinogenesis, and exploiting...

Beyond symbiosis

by | Feb 21, 2018 | Publications

A cancer-centric view of the microbiome The relation between microbiome and cancer is the core of a special theme issue of The Cancer Journal: The journal of Principles & Practice of Oncology. It is focused, in one hand, on the exploration of interrelationships...