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ClearEditorial: Probiotics for global health: advances, applications and challenges
This editorial review summarizes recent advances in probiotic research, covering their health benefits, applications in disease prevention, and challenges in scaling safe and effective probiotic interventions. The piece highlights probiotics as a promising complement to conventional therapies given the global burden of dysbiosis-related diseases.
Some insights on traditional and novel approaches in microbial biotechnology that contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
This editorial highlights diverse ways microbial biotechnology contributes to sustainable development goals, discussing both traditional and novel approaches in areas including pollution remediation, food security, and resource recovery.
Single Strain Probiotic Bifidobacteria Approach in Health and Non-Health Fields
This review examines the potential of single-strain Bifidobacteria probiotics for health and non-health applications. It highlights the importance of personalized microbiome analysis in selecting effective probiotic strains for targeted use.
Editorial: Microbial Ecotoxicology Advances to Improve Environmental and Human Health Under Global Change
This editorial introduces a special journal issue on microbial ecotoxicology, highlighting how microorganisms are affected by environmental contaminants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and other emerging pollutants. Understanding microbial responses to pollution is critical for assessing broader ecosystem and human health risks.
Resilience to Global Health Challenges Through Nutritional Gut Microbiome Modulation
This review explores how gut microbiome composition during early life influences long-term health, and how nutritional strategies can help build resilience against chronic diseases. Researchers highlight that environmental factors including microplastics and other contaminants can disrupt the developing gut microbiome, potentially contributing to allergies, obesity, and neurological conditions. The study suggests that targeted nutritional interventions to support healthy gut bacteria could help counteract some of these environmental exposures.
Microplastics and microbiota: Unraveling the hidden environmental challenge
This editorial summarizes the emerging evidence that microplastics disrupt the gut microbiome, decreasing microbial diversity and triggering an imbalance called dysbiosis. This disruption affects immune function, nutrient metabolism, and overall health, though the full long-term consequences of this two-way relationship between microplastics and gut bacteria remain an active area of research.
Editorial: Impact of gut ecosystem in health and diseases: microbiome, mucosal barrier and cytokine milieu
This editorial introduces a research collection examining the gut ecosystem's role in health and disease, focusing on how the perinatal and lifetime 'exposome' (diet, pre/probiotics, environmental factors) shapes microbiome composition, mucosal barrier function, and cytokine/chemokine signaling in intestinal immunity.
Exploring the Crucial Role of the Gut Microbiome in Advancing Food Processing Technologies
This review explores the role of gut microbiome composition in food processing and technology development, examining how microbial communities influence fermentation, nutrient bioavailability, and food safety, with implications for probiotic and prebiotic product design.
Editorial: Expert opinions: save the microbes to save the planet
This editorial discusses the role of microbes in planetary health, arguing that microbial communities are critical to addressing climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental pollution including plastic degradation. The piece calls for greater scientific attention to protecting and harnessing microbial diversity as a tool for ecological restoration.
A Clarion Call or a Call of the Clarions
This editorial discusses the growing importance of the human microbiome as a fourth dimension of epidemiological analysis — alongside host, pathogen, and environment — in understanding health and disease. The authors argue that microbiome research will reshape medicine and our understanding of genetic and cellular health.
Probiotics as Modulators of Microplastic-induced Toxicity: A Systematic Review
This systematic review found that probiotics can reduce microplastic-induced toxicity in animal models by restoring gut microbiota balance, reducing oxidative stress, and modulating inflammatory responses. The findings suggest that probiotic supplementation may help mitigate the harmful effects of unavoidable microplastic exposure, though human clinical trials are still needed.
The concept of balance in microbiome research
This essay critically examines how the concept of "balance" is used in microbiome research and medical literature. Researchers analyzed multiple interpretations of what a balanced versus imbalanced microbiome means, finding that the term is often used loosely without precise scientific definition. The study argues for more rigorous conceptual frameworks to better understand how microbiome composition relates to health outcomes.
Microplastic emerging pollutants – impact on microbiological diversity, diarrhea, antibiotic resistance, and bioremediation
This review examines how global plastic waste accumulation affects microbial diversity, promotes diarrheal disease, and accelerates antibiotic resistance, while also surveying bioremediation strategies for managing microplastic pollution.
Microbiome First Approaches to Rescue Public Health and Reduce Human Suffering
This review advocates for Microbiome First public health approaches to address the failure of conventional disease prevention programs, arguing that restoring healthy microbiome diversity through diet, reduced antibiotic use, and reduced exposure to disruptors including microplastics and PFAS could reduce noncommunicable disease burden.
Novel Approaches in Establishing Chemical Food Safety Based on the Detoxification Capacity of Probiotics and Postbiotics: A Critical Review
This review examines emerging evidence that probiotics and their metabolic byproducts (postbiotics) can help neutralize environmental contaminants in food, including bacterial toxins, mycotoxins, pesticides, heavy metals, and microplastics. Researchers found that various probiotic strains can bind to, transform, or break down these harmful substances through multiple mechanisms. The study highlights biological approaches using beneficial microorganisms as a practical and cost-effective strategy for improving food safety.
Probiotics an emerging therapeutic approach towards gut-brain-axis oriented chronic health issues induced by microplastics: A comprehensive review
This review examines how microplastics disrupt the gut-brain axis, the communication system between the digestive system and the brain, leading to chronic health problems like inflammation and neurological issues. The authors highlight probiotics as a promising treatment approach, since beneficial bacteria can help repair gut damage caused by microplastic exposure. The findings suggest that supporting gut health through probiotics may help counteract some of the harmful effects of microplastics on both digestion and brain function.
Emerging applications of postbiotics to sustainable livestock production systems
This review examines the emerging use of postbiotics, which are beneficial compounds produced by probiotic bacteria, as natural feed additives in livestock production. Researchers found that postbiotics show promise for improving animal growth, gut health, and fertility without the risks associated with live probiotic bacteria, such as antibiotic resistance gene transfer. The study suggests postbiotics could be a more stable and safer alternative for promoting sustainable animal production.
Impact of microplastics on the intestinal microbiota: A systematic review of preclinical evidence
Across 28 preclinical studies, microplastics triggered intestinal dysbiosis characterized by increased Firmicutes and Proteobacteria and decreased Bacteroidetes, while increasing gut permeability and elevating pro-inflammatory cytokines including IL-1β, TNF-α, and IL-6.
Biocontaminant—toward sustainable development and planetary health
Researchers launched the journal Biocontaminant, dedicated to multidisciplinary research on biocontamination and its impacts on sustainable development and planetary health. The editorial highlights how biocontaminants such as pathogens, toxins, invasive species, and plastic pollutants represent unprecedented challenges intersecting with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Could probiotics protect against human toxicity caused by polystyrene nanoplastics and microplastics?
This review examines whether probiotics could help protect against the harmful effects of polystyrene nanoplastics and microplastics in the body. Researchers found evidence that probiotic bacteria may counteract plastic-induced gut imbalances, reduce inflammation, and support intestinal barrier function. The study suggests that probiotics represent a promising area of research for mitigating some of the biological effects of microplastic exposure, though more human studies are needed.
A probiotic for preventing microplastic toxicity: Clostridium dalinum mitigates microplastic-induced damage via microbiota-metabolism-barrier interactions
Using metagenomics and metabolomics, this study found that the probiotic bacterium Clostridium dalinum reduced microplastic-induced gut damage in mice by modulating gut microbiota composition, metabolic pathways, and intestinal barrier integrity.
The urgent need for microbiology literacy in society
This paper argues that society urgently needs better microbiology literacy to make informed decisions about issues ranging from public health to environmental management. Researchers highlight that microbes underpin critical functions in ecosystems, human health, and the biosphere, yet public understanding of microbiology remains extremely limited. The study calls for integrating microbiology education into broader scientific literacy efforts to help individuals and policymakers make better evidence-based decisions.
The probiotic SLAB51 as agent to counteract BPA toxicity on zebrafish gut microbiota -liver-brain axis
Researchers tested whether the probiotic supplement SLAB51 could counteract the harmful effects of bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic-derived chemical, in zebrafish and found it significantly restored healthy gut bacteria, reduced liver damage, and protected the brain — suggesting probiotics may help offset harm from plastic-associated chemical exposure.
The microplastic-crisis: Role of bacteria in fighting microplastic-effects in the digestive system
This review examines how microplastics affect the human digestive system and explores whether certain bacteria could help counteract the damage. Microplastics disrupt the gut by altering microbial communities, interfering with digestive enzymes, and damaging the protective mucus lining. The authors highlight the potential for probiotic bacteria to bind to microplastics, reduce inflammation, and help repair the gut environment, offering a possible protective strategy against microplastic-related digestive harm.