bacteria

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr5lej9l8lo The first bacteria our bodies meet – in the hours after we're born – could protect us from dangerous infections, UK scientists say. They have shown, for the first time, that good bacteria seem to halve the risk of young children being admitted...

At-home test can catch cancer and IBS-causing bacteria (msn.com)

Investigating the Human Intestinal DNA Virome and Predicting Disease-Associated Virus–Host Interactions in Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ME/CFS Hsieh, Shen-Yuan; Savva, George M.; Telatin, Andrea; Tiwari, Sumeet K.; Tariq, Mohammad A.; Newberry, Fiona; Seton...

Full title: Comprehensive profiling of the human intestinal DNA virome and prediction of disease-associated bacterial hosts in severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Abstract Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a disabling disorder of...

Researchers discover a potential cause of Parkinson’s disease | University of Helsinki “Our findings are significant, as the cause of Parkinson’s disease has gone unknown despite attempts to identify it throughout the last two centuries. The findings indicate that specific strains of...

Merged thread This is a very long article, i've only gotten through about 20% of it so far https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/05/the-best-viral-news-youll-ever-read-antibiotic-resistance-phage-therapy-bacteriophage-virus/

I filled out the questionnaire and was selected. They will mail me the sample collection kit. Edit: Participants must be in the USA and aged 18 or over.

Full title: The Reification of the Clinical Diagnosis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) as an Immune and Oxidative Stress Disorder: Construction of a Data-Driven Nomothethic Network and Exposure of ME/CFS Subgroups https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202101.0623/v1

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319562X20300887 (is this the study that Karl Morten refers to?)

Thought this review might be interesting/in line with Bhupesh Prusty's work on HHV-6 causing mitochondrial damage (fission) via a miRNA mechanism. Open access: https://www.cell.com/trends/cell-biology/fulltext/S0962-8924(20)30018-0 Amy Proal has tweeted about it:

perspective https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6469/1077 Article https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6469/1143 Or https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6469/1143.editor-summary

full article here: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/192830/new-bacterial-strain-discovered-england-wales/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00991-4

Abstract ahead of print, http://www.eurekaselect.com/167390/article

Open access at https://mbio.asm.org/content/9/5/e02007-18 Article based on the above https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/breakthrough-test-screens-all-known-bacterial-infections

Paywalled at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41385-018-0072-x While this is in "Unrelated to ME/CFS research" forum, the blog below, from Jackson Labs, suggests that it could have some implication in ME. https://jaxmecfs.com/2018/09/24/750/

SIBO (Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth) seems to be popping up on a few threads recently so I thought I’d start a poll about the prevalence among S4ME users. I suspect that it’s likely going to be a fairly low amount of people who answer yes to this, particularly as in the UK it’s...

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/wrapping-itself-antibodies-bacterium-may-become-stable-beneficial-part-gut

In Summary: They're already looking at viruses in feces to see if healthy people have different viral, ah, "loads" than people with cirrhosis of the liver. Scientists wonder if viruses, either by infecting our bodies or our microbiomes, might contribute to IBD or (ME/)CFS. Read more here.

https://www.embl.de/aboutus/communication_outreach/media_relations/2018/0319_Nature_Microbiology/