Metaproteomics of the human gut microbiota: Challenges and contributions to other OMICS.

Our digestive tract hosts more than a billion microorganisms comprising non-pathogenic bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. Understanding and characterizing the human gut microbiota has become a fundamental common theme to establish a link between its dysbiosis and certain pathologies, especially autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Meta-Omics studies have, so far, provided great progress in this field.

Streamlining plant sample preparation: the use of high-throughput robotics to process echinacea samples for biomarker profiling by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry.

Several species in the genus Echinacea are beneficial herbs popularly used for many ailments. The most popular Echinacea species for cultivation, wild collection, and herbal products include E. purpurea (L.