TWiM explains a candidate signature of health in the gut microbial community, and how an intestinal bacterium exacerbates cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury.

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Links for this episode

• 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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