How bugs in your gut may help fight skin cancer

The contents of your stomach may not seem to have much to do with skin cancer, but one of our  studies seems to show that there are specific microbiome bugs which may be the key to treating melanoma more effectively with immunotherapy. Exactly how the microbiome helps us fight cancer is still a newish area of research and this study is one of the largest of its kind, with data from across the UK, the Netherlands, and Barcelona. It's just been published in Nature Medicine, and I talked to one of the authors,  Amrita Vijay, who's a research fellow at the University of Nottingham. The Nature Medicine article is here (may need a subscription): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01695-5 This Podcast is brought to you by the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre. Follow us on @NottmBRC, or email Nottingham research. If you haven't already, please subscribe to the podcast where-ever you get your podcasts, and like/review us on Apple Podcasts especially. It's For Science.