The science here is interesting -- this toothpaste has an engineered strain of Streptococcus mutans where lactate dehydrogenase has been deleted so it can't produce lactic acid -- but I haven't seen evidence that this can change the oral microbiome or prevent cavities in humans

Rome is gorgeous. Most photogenic city in the world?

🚨🚨I'm delighted to present our new work, where we aimed to understand why antibiotic use is a risk factor for development of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Yes, MUCUS will be involved! A 🧵/1

A different view

This city.

Chicagohenge sunset today

Excited to announce our upcoming symposium -- an amazing lineup of speakers, who are all alumni of the UChicagoGGSB graduate program!

Friday, April 19, 9:30AM, KCBD Auditorium. No registration needed + food provided!

Please share widely!

Our most recent work is now published at Nature Genetics. Epigenetic variation impacts individual differences in the transcriptional response to influenza infection. Great collab with Guillaume Bourque lab and huge congrats to the lead author Katie Aracena. Link: shorturl.at/bcdBP

Couldn’t agree more! The amount of misinformation running rampant through traditional and social media on the microbiome is astonishing

Agree with this -- any claim that a microbiome test can detect 'dysbiosis' (and fix it) is not supported by research

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Have to admit, Miami is pretty great

Cormorant, today at the Everglades National Park

Funny that 'Kwisatz Haderach' is supposed to be a phrase in Hebrew that means 'a leap forward', but Frank Herbert changed a couple of letters so now it means something like 'road laundry'

Spectacular day in Chicago

How did we lose our tail? A simple question.. but it wasn't really asked before! We discovered a plausible scenario for the genetic mechanism that led to tail loss. Amazing that such a big change may have been caused by such a small genetic event. nature.com/articles/s4158… Bo Xia

Weird getting an email with a $10K bill for a journal publication fee, followed by an email requesting to review a paper for the same journal for free. Feels like being a victim in some kind of a pyramid scheme

Good night from Chicago

This is the strangest skyscraper in Chicago. There is something bizarre hidden high up in its gothic spire 🧵