E. Alum

Plant-food components at the microbiota–neuroinflammation interface: human evidence, translational limits, and sustainable dietary translation

This narrative review evaluates how convincingly plant-food components and plant-rich dietary patterns influence neuroinflammation and whether those mechanisms translate into neurological benefit. Infection is treated as one possible initiating exposure, neuroinflammation as a context-dependent mechanism, and neurologi...

Metabolic Reprogramming of Cancer Stem Cells: Targeting Lipid Flux and Mitochondrial Plasticity to Overcome Therapeutic Resistance

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are increasingly recognized as metabolically plastic subpopulations within malignant tissues that drive tumor initiation, metastatic dissemination, and relapse after therapy. Although traditional models of cancer metabolism have emphasized aerobic glycolysis, CSCs rarely exhibit a single, clear...

Artificial intelligence for precision obesity phenotyping and cardiometabolic risk stratification: A critical narrative review

Synthetic biology strategies for engineering microbial therapeutics in metabolic diseases and cancer.

This review highlights chassis selection, circuit architectures, applications for metabolic diseases and cancer, metabolic bottlenecks, and future directions for precision microbial therapeutics for metabolic disorders and oncology.

A systematic review on the sources and health risk of heavy metal contamination in environmental and food systems in Uganda

This study systematically reviewed research on heavy metal contamination in environmental and food systems in Uganda using the PRISMA 2020 data reporting method and the PICOS framework. An extensive literature search of published papers on heavy metal contamination in Uganda's environment and food systems was conducted...