Who are the microbes in your neighborhood mice? In your neighborhood mice? In your neighborhood mice?

By Jonathan Eisen Posted in Microbiology of the Built Environment Urban Microbiomes

Posted on April 17, 2018

Just a quick post here pointing people to some new papers of potential interest. The papers in are mBio and are from Ian Lipkin’s lab (with others) on bacteria and viruses in mice in New York City papers in mBio Viral Diversity of House Mice in New York City mBio 9:2 march/april 2018; doi:10.1128/mBio.01354-17 New York …

A fascinating side story to brain-defect microbiome study – major role of the built environment

Posted on May 12, 2017May 12, 2017

So there is a new paper out that is incredibly interesting and has been getting lots of press coverage. The paper was in Nature: Endothelial TLR4 and the microbiome drive cerebral cavernous malformations. Sadly it is behind a paywall, so not everyone out there will have free access to it. But it is available in sci-hub …