Recent studies have shown that maternal gut microbiota in humans primes the offspring's immune and metabolic development during pregnancy and lactation. Due to environmental factors that are impractical to control in human ...
Jan 17, 2019
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Microbes are often seen as pathogens that cause disease and antibiotics have been used successfully to combat these foreign invaders. In reality, the picture is more complex. Most of the time we live in harmony with our commensal ...
Jan 16, 2019
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Researchers will study the gut health of people with Alzheimer's to see if diet can play a role in managing the behavioural and psychological symptoms of the disease.
Dec 28, 2018
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The MyNewGut project has discovered new bacterial species and strains in healthy people that seem to be effective against obesity, metabolic and mental disorders related to stress and obesity (e.g. depression). They do so ...
Dec 18, 2018
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Sugar can silence a key protein required for colonization by a gut bacterium associated with lean and healthy individuals, according to a new Yale study published the week of Dec. 17 in the journal Proceedings of the National ...
Dec 18, 2018
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Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) reported results from a new study that looks at the likelihood of complications for people undergoing bone marrow transplants (BMTs). The observational study found ...
Dec 3, 2018
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Gut microbiota-derived metabolites play important roles in health and disease. In this study, we show the pathophysiological role of D-serine in association with the gut microbiota in humans and mice with acute kidney injury. ...
Nov 27, 2018
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Since 2015 it has been known that the gut microbiota could have a direct impact on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which affects up to 12% of adults and is a leading cause of chronic liver disease. In the November ...
Nov 16, 2018
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A recent animal study published in The FASEB Journal explores the uncharted territory of how the gut microbiome develops in infancy. It was well known that breast-fed mouse pups have a simple bacterial population dominated ...
Nov 15, 2018
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A study published in the journal Cell shows that the gut microbiota has the ability to affect how cells respond to insulin, and can thus contribute to type 2 diabetes. The findings demonstrate an hereto unknown pathological ...
Oct 26, 2018
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