Health
Your dishwasher is not as sterile as you think
(HealthDay)—Your dishwasher may get those plates spotless, but it is also probably teeming with bacteria and fungus, a new study suggests.
Jan 13, 2018
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Immunology
Scientists identify immune cells that keep gut fungi under control
Immune cells that process food and bacterial antigens in the intestines control the intestinal population of fungi, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine scientists. Defects in the fungus-fighting abilities ...
Jan 11, 2018
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Medical research
Researchers propose new term for the role of microbiota in neurodegeneration
Research in the past two decades has revealed that microbial organisms in the gut influence health and disease in many ways, particularly related to immune function, metabolism and resistance to infection. Recent studies ...
Dec 21, 2017
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Medical research
Tracking effects of a food preservative on the gut microbiome
Antimicrobial compounds added to preserve food during storage are believed to be benign and non-toxic to the consumer, but there is "a critical scientific gap in understanding the potential interactions" they may have with ...
Dec 18, 2017
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Medical research
Research in mice paves way to teasing out cause and effect between gut microbes and disease
Clearing a major hurdle in the field of microbiome research, Harvard Medical School scientists have designed and successfully used a method to tease out cause-and-effect relationships between gut bacteria and disease.
Dec 6, 2017
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Medical research
Exercise changes gut microbial composition independent of diet, team reports
Two studies - one in mice and the other in human subjects - offer the first definitive evidence that exercise alone can change the composition of microbes in the gut. The studies were designed to isolate exercise-induced ...
Dec 4, 2017
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Immunology
Asthma in infant boys may eventually be preventable
A new University of Alberta study shows that the family risk for asthma—typically passed from moms to babies—may not be a result of genetics alone: it may also involve the microbes found in a baby's digestive tract.
Nov 27, 2017
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Immunology
Druglike molecules produced by gut bacteria can affect gut, immune health
Stanford researchers found that manipulating the gut microbe Clostridium sporogenes changed levels of molecules in the bloodstreams of mice and, in turn, affected their health.
Nov 23, 2017
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Overweight & Obesity
Gut fungi could play a role in obesity epidemic
A high-fat diet changes fungi in the gut and may play a role in the development of obesity, according to a new study in mSphere, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology. While gut microbes have previously been ...
Oct 11, 2017
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Immunology
Study finds that microbial dispersal impacts animal guts
In a special experiment, zebrafish with defective immune systems swam and dined with counterparts with normal immune systems. In short order, their gut microbiomes became similar.
Oct 3, 2017
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