ReviewNature microbiology2023
A relational framework for microbiome research with Indigenous communities.
Review in Nature microbiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- DNA sequencing for microbial surveillance in cystic fibrosis airways: advances, challenges, and clinical translation.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2026Review
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- Considerations for biobanking of nonhuman genome data connected to Indigenous Peoples and lands.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026Article
- Advocating for return-of-results to participants in microbiome research.Nature microbiology · 2026Article
- Participant engagement and feedback in microbiome projects: a case of AWI-Gen 2.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Toward ethical human microbiome research: improving health through radical interdisciplinary and intercultural co-laboration.Microbiome · 2026Article
- Employing Common Morality to Address Ethical Issues in Genetics Research With Indigenous People: The Ọmọlúàbí Ideology.American journal of biological anthropology · 2026Review
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- Indigenous microorganisms and benefit sharing.FEMS yeast research · 2026Review
- Microbiome stewardship: definition and guiding principles for implementation.Sustainable microbiology · 2026Article
- Indigenous microbiology: Why Indigenous knowledge matters in microbial science.FEMS microbes · 2026Article
- Analyzing human gut microbiome data from global populations: challenges and resources.Trends in microbiology · 2025Review
- Prioritizing precision: guidelines for the better use of population descriptors in human microbiome research.mSystems · 2025Review
- Growing microbiology literacy through interdisciplinary approaches to food fermentations and an Indigenous peoples' rights framework.Journal of microbiology & biology education · 2025Article
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- Ethical bioprospecting and microbial assessments for sustainable solutions to the AMR crisis.IUBMB life · 2025Review
- A path to better practices in microbiology.Nature microbiology · 2024Article
- Oral microbial diversity in 18th century African individuals from South Carolina.Communications biology · 2024Article
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9 authors.
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Abstract
Ethical practices in human microbiome research have failed to keep pace with scientific advances in the field. Researchers seeking to 'preserve' microbial species associated with Indigenous groups, but absent from industrialized populations, have largely failed to include Indigenous people in knowledge co-production or benefit, perpetuating a legacy of intellectual and material extraction. We propose a framework centred on relationality among Indigenous peoples, researchers and microbes, to guide ethical microbiome research. Our framework centres accountability to flatten historical power imbalances that favour researcher perspectives and interests to provide space for Indigenous worldviews in pursuit of Indigenous research sovereignty. Ethical inclusion of Indigenous communities in microbiome research can provide health benefits for all populations and reinforce mutually beneficial partnerships between researchers and the public.
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