New technologies for developing phage-based tools to manipulate the human microbiome

Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

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Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome

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Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body

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Interaction between microbiota and immunity in health and disease

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Anticancer immunotherapy by CTLA-4 blockade relies on the gut microbiota

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Intestinal microbial metabolism of phosphatidylcholine and cardiovascular risk

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Multi-omics of the gut microbial ecosystem in inflammatory bowel diseases

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Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences

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Host Remodeling of the Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Changes during Pregnancy

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Human gut microbes impact host serum metabolome and insulin sensitivity

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Patient-derived organoids model treatment response of metastatic gastrointestinal cancers

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Gut Microbial Metabolite TMAO Enhances Platelet Hyperreactivity and Thrombosis Risk

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Recovery of nearly 8,000 metagenome-assembled genomes substantially expands the tree of life

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Metformin alters the gut microbiome of individuals with treatment-naive type 2 diabetes, contributing to the therapeutic effects of the drug

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Extensive Unexplored Human Microbiome Diversity Revealed by Over 150,000 Genomes from Metagenomes Spanning Age, Geography, and Lifestyle

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Multi-Omics Factor Analysis—a framework for unsupervised integration of multi-omics data sets

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Engineered bacteriophages for treatment of a patient with a disseminated drug-resistant Mycobacterium abscessus

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A new genomic blueprint of the human gut microbiota

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Drug-Resistant <i>E. coli</i> Bacteremia Transmitted by Fecal Microbiota Transplant

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Uncovering Earth’s virome

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Exploiting CRISPR-Cas nucleases to produce sequence-specific antimicrobials

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Antibiotic-induced shifts in the mouse gut microbiome and metabolome increase susceptibility to Clostridium difficile infection

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Dispersing biofilms with engineered enzymatic bacteriophage

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Regional variation limits applications of healthy gut microbiome reference ranges and disease models

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A controlled clinical trial of a therapeutic bacteriophage preparation in chronic otitis due to antibiotic‐resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa ; a preliminary report of efficacy

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Bacteriophage targeting of gut bacterium attenuates alcoholic liver disease

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Xenobiotics shape the physiology and gene expression of the active human gut microbiome

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Bacteriophages of the Human Gut: The “Known Unknown” of the Microbiome

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New insights from uncultivated genomes of the global human gut microbiome

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Efficacy of Sterile Fecal Filtrate Transfer for Treating Patients With Clostridium difficile Infection

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The Gut Virome Database Reveals Age-Dependent Patterns of Virome Diversity in the Human Gut

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Gavage of Fecal Samples From Patients With Colorectal Cancer Promotes Intestinal Carcinogenesis in Germ-Free and Conventional Mice

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Generating a synthetic genome by whole genome assembly: φX174 bacteriophage from synthetic oligonucleotides

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Establishing or Exaggerating Causality for the Gut Microbiome: Lessons from Human Microbiota-Associated Rodents

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Panoptic imaging of transparent mice reveals whole-body neuronal projections and skull–meninges connections

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Chemosynthetic symbionts of marine invertebrate animals are capable of nitrogen fixation

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Phylogenetically Novel Uncultured Microbial Cells Dominate Earth Microbiomes

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Engineering Phage Host-Range and Suppressing Bacterial Resistance through Phage Tail Fiber Mutagenesis

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Whole-Virome Analysis Sheds Light on Viral Dark Matter in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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Ménage à trois in the human gut: interactions between host, bacteria and phages

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Deciphering functional redundancy in the human microbiome

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Carnitine metabolism to trimethylamine by an unusual Rieske-type oxygenase from human microbiota

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Targeted isolation and cultivation of uncultivated bacteria by reverse genomics

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The intestinal microbiota programs diurnal rhythms in host metabolism through histone deacetylase 3

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Integrated multi-omics of the human gut microbiome in a case study of familial type 1 diabetes

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Correction: Corrigendum: Genomic inference of the metabolism of cosmopolitan subsurface Archaea, Hadesarchaea

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An automated Raman-based platform for the sorting of live cells by functional properties

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Phage Therapy in the Resistance Era: Where Do We Stand and Where Are We Going?

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In situ cultivation of previously uncultivable microorganisms using the ichip

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Faecal virome transplantation decreases symptoms of type 2 diabetes and obesity in a murine model

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Bacteriophage Combinations Significantly Reduce Clostridium difficile Growth In Vitro and Proliferation In Vivo

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Probing Individual Environmental Bacteria for Viruses by Using Microfluidic Digital PCR

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Anti-CRISPR Phages Cooperate to Overcome CRISPR-Cas Immunity

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Pharmacologically Aware Phage Therapy: Pharmacodynamic and Pharmacokinetic Obstacles to Phage Antibacterial Action in Animal and Human Bodies

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A primordial and reversible TCA cycle in a facultatively chemolithoautotrophic thermophile

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Extending the Host Range of Bacteriophage Particles for DNA Transduction

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Bacteriophage uptake by mammalian cell layers represents a potential sink that may impact phage therapy

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Expansion of known ssRNA phage genomes: From tens to over a thousand

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Gene-targeted microfluidic cultivation validated by isolation of a gut bacterium listed in Human Microbiome Project's Most Wanted taxa

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Phase-variable capsular polysaccharides and lipoproteins modify bacteriophage susceptibility in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron

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Bacteriophages Isolated from Stunted Children Can Regulate Gut Bacterial Communities in an Age-Specific Manner

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<i>Clostridium butyricum</i>Strains and Dysbiosis Linked to Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Preterm Neonates

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In situ reprogramming of gut bacteria by oral delivery

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Single‐cell and population level viral infection dynamics revealed by phage FISH , a method to visualize intracellular and free viruses

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Scaffolding bacterial genomes and probing host-virus interactions in gut microbiome by proximity ligation (chromosome capture) assay

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Defining the human gut host–phage network through single-cell viral tagging

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iOmicsPASS: network-based integration of multiomics data for predictive subnetwork discovery

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Phage resistance at the cost of virulence: Listeria monocytogenes serovar 4b requires galactosylated teichoic acids for InlB-mediated invasion

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An ecological framework to understand the efficacy of fecal microbiota transplantation

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Multiplex transcriptional characterizations across diverse bacterial species using cell‐free systems

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Metagenome Data on Intestinal Phage-Bacteria Associations Aids the Development of Phage Therapy against Pathobionts

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Quantification of diverse virus populations in the environment using the polony method

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Gastrointestinal diagnosis using non-white light imaging capsule endoscopy

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Bacteriophages engineered to display foreign peptides may become short‐circulating phages

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An intravital window to image the colon in real time

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Adsorption Sequencing as a Rapid Method to Link Environmental Bacteriophages to Hosts

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gNOMO: a multi-omics pipeline for integrated host and microbiome analysis of non-model organisms

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