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The MicrobiomeResearchX (MRX) Podcast
Ayele Argaw-Denboba： Finalist 2025 NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize
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Adarsh Sandhu
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Season 6
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Episode 2
Today’s guest is Ayele Argaw-Denboba from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg, Germany, and one of the 2025 Prize Winners of the NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize. is essay, “The gut microbiome–germline axis,” shows that disturbances in a father’s gut microbes can alter sperm and pass on health risks to the next generation — but restoring the microbiome can reverse these effects.
Ayele Argaw-Denboba
The gut microbiome–germline axis: Does a prospective father’s gut microbiota matter?
Science 389,38-38 (2025).