TWiM explains how an enhanced domestication method allows for growth of uncultured bacteria, and identification of the oncogene SLC35F2 as is a high-specificity transporter for the micronutrients queuine and queuosine.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson.

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• Domestication method for uncultured bacteria (ISME Comm)
• Transporter for the micronutrients queuine and queuosine (PNAS)
• How diet and microbiome can impact your health (UF blog)
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TWiM explains a candidate signature of health in the gut microbial community, and how an intestinal bacterium exacerbates cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson and Petra Levin.

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• A candidate signature of health in the gut microbiome (Cell Host Microbe)
• 204,938 reference genomes from the human gut microbiome (Nat Biotech)
• A human gut metagenome-assembled genome catalogue spanning 41 countries (Nat Micro)
• A comprehensive ruminant microbial catalog (Gigascience)
• Bacteroides acidifaciens exacerbates cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury (Cell Host Microbe)
• The Great Ozempic Experiment (NY Times, paywall)
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TWiM explains how to use microbes to enhance maize yield and reduce corn rootworm damage, and how the human microbiota modulates IgE-mediated reactions to foods through allergen metabolism.

Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin, and Michele Swanson.

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• Harnessing Microbes for Crop Production (Phytobiome J)
• Microbes take on corn rootworm (Science)
• Microbial metabolism of food allergens (Cell Host Microbe)
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