Health

High risk sex behaviors impact women's health

High-risk sexual behavior like sex work may be biologically linked to an increased risk of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), new research at McMaster University ...

Medical research

Profiling the gut microbiome proteins that modify bile

It turns out that bile is a lot more dynamic than you might think. One of the biggest factors affecting bile, which is very important to our ability to absorb nutrients, is our diet. But another is the make-up of the community ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Scientists plot antibiotic resistance on a world map

Russian scientists have created an interactive world map of human gut microbiota with potential to resist antibiotics, known as the resistome. Their ResistoMap will help identify national trends in antibiotic use and control ...

Medical research

Gut bacteria affect our metabolism

Mice that receive gut bacteria transplants from overweight humans are known to gain more weight than mice transplanted with gut bacteria from normal weight subjects, even when the mice are fed the same diet. A study from ...

Medical research

Insights into the ecology of the microbiome

The microbiome is like a fingerprint: every person's community of microbes is complex and unique. But the underlying dynamics, the interactions between the microbes that shape these microbial ecosystems, may have something ...

Medical research

Three lessons gut microbes have taught us about antibiotics

Antibiotics have proven to be a double-edged sword: capable of killing a range of bacteria that cause infections, but also depleting our gut microbes, impairing our immune system, and increasing vulnerability to infection ...

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