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Howard Junca, PhD
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Science, microbiology, nature, culture, music & politics. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Howard-Junca
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Today we report a new compendium of human gut microbiomes with >168,000 samples

By analyzing this massive dataset, we discovered distinct microbiome patterns across the globe, and show we can predict where a person lives just from their gut bacteria

Now out in Cell:

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome
The Human Microbiome Compendium is a unified database of publicly available human gut microbiome 16S samples, built with the integrated data from hundreds of independent projects. The compendium is us...
www.cell.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Advancing our understanding of the AMOC - NOAA AOML’s research in 2024 revealed critical aspects of the AMOC: 🌊🧪 www.aoml.noaa.gov/advancing-ou...
Advancing our understanding of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
A recent study by scientists at AOML found that extensive weakening of the AMOC occurred in the 2000s, but has paused since the early 2010s due to a tug-of-war between the natural and anthropogenic si...
www.aoml.noaa.gov
January 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Coral City Camera | World Record Underwater Coral Growth Timelapse (619 Days) | 5.1.23-1.9.25 youtu.be/IAI32BvhYbY?...
Coral City Camera | World Record Underwater Coral Growth Timelapse (619 Days) | 5.1.23-1.9.25
YouTube video by Coral Morphologic
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January 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Promising use of capsules with bacteriophage/viral filtrates from healthy donors to heal ulcerative colitis +straightforward approach to track bacteriophage communities @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/isme... #microbiome #virome #phageome #fecal #health #microbiology #ulcerative #colitis
January 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳

With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
January 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Queen parrotfish looking fully satisfied on this Thanksgiving day 👑🦜🐟🦃 www.instagram.com/reel/C0Aor1_...
November 24, 2023 at 1:28 AM
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Discovery and characterization of the first known biological lanthanide chelator, from @zzzytty.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 11, 2023 at 3:48 PM
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On the limits of 16S rRNA gene-based metagenome prediction and functional profiling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
On the limits of 16S rRNA gene-based metagenome prediction and functional profiling
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
November 9, 2023 at 2:05 PM
Happy to share this collaborative work: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Quite distinct effects of squamous cell carcinoma and smoking status on human oropharyngeal and laryngeal microbial communities ⚠️ Saliva/oral microbiome as proxy to diagnose/prognose esophageal carcinoma not recommended
November 9, 2023 at 5:19 PM
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If you've missed Prof. Robert Edwards's @linsalrob.bsky.social talk on the VIROSPHERE and many other excellent #microbiome talks, no worries

you can now watch them at your convenience on our YouTube channel (🔗 below)

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
MVIF.22 - 17th October 2023
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November 2, 2023 at 4:18 PM