This study investigates how the intertidal red alga Pyropia haitanensis (Bangiophyceae) achieves rapid desiccation-rehydration tolerance through coordinated interactions between the host, its associated microbiome, and key metabolites. By integrating 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing, metagenomics, an...

Microbiota-released extracellular vesicles (MEVs) have emerged as a key player in intercellular signaling. However, their involvement in the gut-brain axis has been poorly investigated. In this study, we aimed to investigate the cargo capacity of MEVs for bioactive metabolites and their interacti...

The pregnancy vaginal microbiome contributes to risk of preterm birth, the primary cause of death in children under 5 years of age. Here we describe direct on-swab metabolic profiling by Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (DESI-MS) for sample preparation-free characterisation of...

The mechanistic role of the airway microbiome in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains largely unexplored. We present a landscape of airway microbe-host interactions in COPD by an in-depth profiling of sputum metagenome, metabolome, host transcriptome and proteome from 99 COPD pati...

Animals and their associated microbiota share long evolutionary histories. However, it is not always clear how host genotype and microbiota interact to affect phenotype. We applied a hologenomic approach to explore how host-microbiota interactions shape lifetime growth and parasite infection in f...

Gut environments harbour dense microbial ecosystems in which plasmids are widely distributed. Plasmids facilitate the exchange of genetic material among microorganisms while enabling the transfer of a diverse array of accessory functions. However, their precise impact on microbial community compo...

Functional characterization of microbes which colonize CRC is impeded by a lack of bacterial strains from tumor tissues. Here, we report the Cancer-Associated Microbe Library (CAM-L), comprising more than 3,000 viable bacterial isolates, representing 121 distinct species, and 60 matching organoid...

Dietary regimen exerts a dominant influence in reshaping the gut microbiota structure and microbial metabolite types and levels in S. chuatsi, subsequently affecting host physiological functions like immunity, and has a more pronounced effect than environmen...