Intracellular bacteria in cancer—Prospects and debates

L Schorr, M Mathies, E Elinav, J Puschhof - npj Biofilms and …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent evidence suggests that some human cancers may harbor low-biomass microbial
ecosystems, spanning bacteria, viruses, and fungi. Bacteria, the most-studied kingdom in …

Nine (not so simple) steps: a practical guide to using machine learning in microbial ecology

C Walsh, E Stallard-Olivera, N Fierer - Mbio, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Due to the complex nature of microbiome data, the field of microbial ecology has many
current and potential uses for machine learning (ML) modeling. With the increased use of …

Caution regarding the specificities of pan-cancer microbial structure

A Gihawi, CS Cooper, DS Brewer - Microbial genomics, 2023 - microbiologyresearch.org
Results published in an article by Poore et al.(Nature. 2020; 579: 567–574) suggested that
machine learning models can almost perfectly distinguish between tumour types based on …

[HTML][HTML] A pan-cancer analysis of the microbiome in metastatic cancer

TW Battaglia, IL Mimpen, JJH Traets, A van Hoeck… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Microbial communities are resident to multiple niches of the human body and are important
modulators of the host immune system and responses to anticancer therapies. Recent …

Fungi in cancer

J Galloway-Peña, ID Iliev, F McAllister - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Both the gut and the tumour microbiome are now established as crucial regulators of cancer
phenotypes and have been implicated in cancer initiation, progression and therapy …

A review of machine learning methods for cancer characterization from microbiome data

M Teixeira, F Silva, RM Ferreira, T Pereira… - NPJ Precision …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent studies have shown that the microbiome can impact cancer development,
progression, and response to therapies suggesting microbiome-based approaches for …

Multi-omics analysis elucidates the relationship between intratumor microbiome and host immune heterogeneity in breast cancer

J Li, Y Zhang, Y Cai, P Yao, Y Jia, X Wei… - Microbiology …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Research has indicated that intratumor microbiomes affect the occurrence, progression, and
therapeutic response in many cancer types by influencing the immune system. We aim to …

Race-dependent variability in the human tumor mycobiome

D Coster, T Margalit, B Boursi, R Shamir - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Introduction: Recently, Narunsky-Haziza et. al. showed that fungi species identified in a
variety of cancer types may have prognostic and diagnostic signficane. We used that data in …

Reconstruction of the condition-and location-specific colon cancer microbiome from human RNA sequencing data

G Sambruni - 2023 - air.unimi.it
The microbiota play a vital role in the organism's survival: the disruption of the equilibrium
between the host and its microbiota can lead to the development of diseases, such as …