From the Editors
Updates and insights from the Editors of Springer Nature journals
The microbiome is everywhere, including in our birth plan
If your child is delivered by C-section, will you restore his/hers microbiota?
Journal Club | The social butterfly effect
Social interactions affect your microbiome (at least if you’re a chimp)
High, dry and very, very chilly.
Originally thought to be sterile, the Dry Valleys in Antarctica have been revealed to play home to a functioning microbial ecosystem, although this is limited at high elevation according to a paper published in The ISME Journal.
Journal Club | Iceman’s stomach bug may shed new light on his origins
5300-year-old Helicobacter pylori genome of the Iceman