This #GUTRecentAdvancesInBasicScience review synthesises emerging evidence linking the microbiome to cardiovascular disease, highlighting shared inflammatory and metabolic pathways. Fusco et al. present Gut microbiota and atherosclerosis access it Frontiers Gut Microbiota Dependent Marker TMAO in Promoting Cardiovascular Disease: Inflammation Mechanism, Clinical Prognostic, and Potential as a Therapeutic Target Assembling the anaerobic gamma butyrobetaine to TMA metabolic pathway in Escherichia fergusonii and confirming its role in TMA production from dietary L carnitine in murine models mBio TMAO: Why It Increases & Factors That May Reduce TMAO levels SelfDecode Labs Simultaneous quantification of trimethylamine oxide and its precursors from gut microbial metabolic pathway