{
  "id": 5405995,
  "title": "Plaque microbial community restructuring in rampant dental caries after exclusion of a confirmed Streptococcus mutans ASV: an analysis of public 16S rRNA sequencing data",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/plaque-microbial-community-restructuring-in-rampant-dental-caries",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-03T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.02.748957v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Background: Dental caries is increasingly understood as an ecological biofilm disorder rather than the consequence of a single organism. Although Streptococcus mutans is strongly implicated in cariogenesis, it remains unclear whether caries-associated plaque-community differences persist beyond this organism. Methods: We reanalysed publicly available supragingival-plaque 16S rRNA sequencing data…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}