{"id":236643,"date":"2026-05-06T12:25:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/biodiversity-and-biogeography-of-the-multi-kingdom-cancer-microbiome"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:25:47","slug":"biodiversity-and-biogeography-of-the-multi-kingdom-cancer-microbiome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/biodiversity-and-biogeography-of-the-multi-kingdom-cancer-microbiome","title":{"rendered":"Biodiversity and biogeography of the multi-kingdom cancer microbiome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biodiversity-and-biogeography-of-the-multi-kingdom-cancer-microbiome.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now online! A host-filtering and decontamination pipeline was benchmarked and applied to 16,369 tumor genomes, providing a high-resolution atlas of the cancer microbiome. Although most cancer types lacked a detectable microbiome, orodigestive cancers harbored complex multi-kingdom microbial communities that varied by site, subtype, and somatic mutation burden, linking the tumor microbiome to host phenotype and tumor genomic context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now online! A host-filtering and decontamination pipeline was benchmarked and applied to 16,369 tumor genomes, providing a high-resolution atlas of the cancer microbiome. Although most cancer types lacked a detectable microbiome, orodigestive cancers harbored complex multi-kingdom microbial communities that varied by site, subtype, and somatic mutation burden, linking the tumor microbiome to host phenotype and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}