The popularity of fermented foods and beverages is due to their enhanced shelf-life, safety,
functionality, sensory, and nutritional properties. The latter includes the presence of …

The capacity to collect and analyse data is growing exponentially. Referred to as 'Big Data',
this scientific, social and technological trend has helped create destabilising amounts of …

The recognition of the human microbiome (HM) as a substantial contributor to nutrition,
health and disease is a relatively recent one, and currently, peerreviewed studies linking …

Microbiota-gut-brain (MGB) research is a fast-growing field of inquiry with important
implications for how human brain function and behaviour are understood. Researchers …

Several studies have reported increased microbial diversity, or distinct microbial community
compositions, in the microbiomes of Indigenous peoples around the world. However, there …

Background Whether probiotics, which can influence the microbiome, prevent infant eczema
or allergic disease remains an open question. Most studies have focused on high-risk …

The human gastrointestinal tract hosts trillions of microorganisms that is called “gut
microbiota.” The gut microbiota is involved in a wide variety of physiological features and …

Recent developments in sequencing methods and bioinformatics analysis tools have greatly
enabled the culture-independent analysis of complex microbial communities associated with …

Indigenous Peoples have a rich and long-standing connection with the environments that
they descend from—a connection that has informed a deep and multifaceted understanding …

Historians of science have identified an ecological turn underway in immunology, driven by
the mapping of the human microbiome and wider environmentalist anxieties. A figure is …