{
  "id": 9072981,
  "title": "The Spatial Architecture of Human Subgingival Biofilms",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/the-spatial-architecture-of-human-subgingival-biofilms",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-21T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.19.752862v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Human microbiome studies have transformed understanding of disease-associated microbial communities, yet most approaches collapse polymicrobial biofilms into compositional profiles and lose the spatial relationships through which microorganisms interact in vivo. Periodontitis provides a clinically important model to investigate microbial spatial organisation because the disease is associated with…",
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  "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."
}