Publications by authors named "Manfei Zhao"

Article Synopsis
  • Cancer remains a leading cause of death globally, prompting extensive research into effective therapies, particularly involving gut microbiota.
  • A study isolated four bacterial strains (BY38, BY40, BY43, BY45) from healthy individuals and cancer patients, which showed significant inhibition of ovarian and colorectal cancer cell growth.
  • The bacteria belong to the genus Bacillus and may induce cancer cell death through apoptosis, indicating their potential as new anticancer agents.
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Background: Escherichia coli are mostly commensals but also contain pathogenic lineages. It is largely unclear whether the commensal E. coli as the potential origins of pathogenic lineages may consist of monophyletic or polyphyletic populations, elucidation of which is expected to lead to novel insights into the associations of E.

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Adults use vision during stepping and walking to fine-tune foot placement. However, the developmental profile of visually guided stepping is unclear. We asked (1) whether children use online vision to fine-tune precise steps and (2) whether precision stepping develops as part of broader visuomotor development, alongside other fundamental motor skills like reaching.

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Lung cancer (LC) is one of the most serious malignant tumors, which has the fastest growing morbidity and mortality worldwide. A role of the lung microbiota in LC pathogenesis has been analyzed, but a comparable role of the gut microbiota has not yet been investigated. In this study, the gut microbiota of 30 LC patients and 30 healthy controls were examined via next-generation sequencing of 16S rRNA and analyzed for diversity and biomarkers.

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