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ArticleMicrobial biotechnology2025

Microbes Saving Lives and Reducing Suffering.

Kenneth Timmis, Zeynep Ceren Karahan, Juan Luis Ramos, Omry Koren, Ana Elena Pérez-Cobas, Karen Steward, Victor de Lorenzo, Elisabetta Caselli, Margaret Douglas, Clarissa Schwab and 17 more

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Article in Microbial biotechnology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

27 authors.

Kenneth TimmisInstitute of Microbiology, Technical University Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0066-4670
Zeynep Ceren KarahanDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Ibn-i Sina Hospital Central Microbiology Laboratory, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Juan Luis RamosConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Granada, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8731-7435
Omry KorenAzrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-7738-1337
Ana Elena Pérez-CobasDepartment of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research (IRYCIS), Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-3995-5571
Karen StewardTechnology Networks, Sudbury, Suffolk, UK.
Victor de LorenzoDepartment of Systems Biology, National Centre of Biotechnology CSIC, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6041-2731
Elisabetta CaselliSection of Microbiology, Department of Environmental and Prevention Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
Margaret DouglasUsher Institute, University of Edinburgh Medical School, and Public Health Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1560-5451
Clarissa SchwabDepartment of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-5443-1602
Virginia RiveroPolymer Biotechnology Lab, Biological Research Center Margarita Salas, Spanish National Research Council (CIB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Rafael GiraldoDepartment of Microbial Biotechnology, National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Junkal GarmendiaInstituto de Agrobiotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IdAB-CSIC)-Gobierno de Navarra, Mutilva, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-7440-2737
Raymond J TurnerDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9263-0776
Jessamyn PerlmutterDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
José M Borrero de AcuñaDepartment of Microbiology, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6409-8110
Pablo Ivan NikelThe Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-9313-7481
Jerome BonnetCentre de Biochimie Structurale, INSERM/CNRS, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
Angela SessitschBioresources Unit, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-0137-930X
James K TimmisDepartment of Political Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Carla PruzzoDepartment of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences (DISTAV), University of Genoa, Genova, Italy.
M Auxiliadora PrietoPolymer Biotechnology Lab, Biological Research Center Margarita Salas, Spanish National Research Council (CIB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8038-1223
Siavash IsazadehCorporate Technical & Performance, Veolia North America, Paramus, New Jersey, USA.
Wei E HuangDepartment of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1302-6528
Gerard ClarkeAPC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-9771-3979
Danilo ErcoliniDepartment of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
Max HäggblomDepartment of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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