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Gut bacteria alleviate smoking-related NASH by degrading gut nicotine
Nicotine accumulates in the intestine during tobacco smoking and accelerates the progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), but it can be degraded effectively by the human symbiont Bacteroides xylanisolvens.
- Bo Chen
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Reply to: Issues with combining incompatible and sterile insect techniques
- Yongjun Li
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Molecular basis for control of antibiotic production by a bacterial hormone
X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy structures of the transcriptional repressor of the methylomycin gene cluster, MmfR, reveal the molecular basis for regulation of antibiotic biosynthesis by AHFCA hormones in Actinobacteria.
- Shanshan Zhou
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Incompatible and sterile insect techniques combined eliminate mosquitoes
A field trial succeeded in eliminating populations of the mosquito Aedes albopictus through inundative mass release of incompatible Wolbachia-infected males, which were also irradiated to sterilize any accidentally-released females, and so prevent population replacement.
- Xiaoying Zheng
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A randomized synbiotic trial to prevent sepsis among infants in rural India
A synbiotic preparation of Lactobacillus plantarum and fructooligosaccharide was found to significantly reduce sepsis and infections of the lower respiratory tract in a trial involving rural Indian newborns.
- Pinaki Panigrahi
- , Sailajanandan Parida
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Microbiology: Bacteria for breakfast
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Chemical biology: With added sugar
Programmable protein delivery with a bacterial contractile injection system