Microbiota contributions

Microbiota contributions

Intratumoral microbiota have been described in various human cancers. In Nature, Bullman and colleagues use in situ spatial-profiling technologies and single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to map host–bacterial interactions within the tumour microenvironment. In oral...
The microbiome and human cancer

The microbiome and human cancer

BACKGROUND: Historical accounts linking cancer and microbes date as early as four millennia ago. Post establishment of the germ theory of infectious diseases, clinical research of microbial influences on cancer began in 1868, when William Busch reported spontaneous...