News tagged with gut bacteria

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Microbiologist discovers new super-preservative

(PhysOrg.com) -- In one of those freak accidents that sometimes occur in science, where someone is looking at something for one purpose and finds another for it, Dan O'Sullivan has found a use for a byproduct of harmless ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (26) | comments 45 | with audio podcast report

'Knowing it in your gut' is real

A lot of chatter goes on inside each one of us and not all of it happens between our ears.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 5

What's your gut type? People fall into 3 categories of gut microbiota

In the future, when you walk into a doctor's surgery or hospital, you could be asked not just about your allergies and blood group, but also about your gut type. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Of bugs and brains: Researchers discover that gut bacteria affect multiple sclerosis

Biologists at the California Institute of Technology have demonstrated a connection between multiple sclerosis (MS) -- an autoimmune disorder that affects the brain and spinal cord -- and gut bacteria.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 19, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Brain development may be influenced by bacteria in the gut

A team of scientists from across the globe have found that gut bacteria may influence mammalian brain development and adult behavior. The study is published in the scientific journal PNAS, and is the result of an ongoing collab ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists catalog zoo of bacteria inside our guts

(AP) -- The human gut is a virtual zoo, full of a wide variety of bacteria, a new study found. And scientists say that's a good thing.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Learning to tolerate our microbial self

(PhysOrg.com) -- The human gut is filled with 100 trillion symbiotic bacteria—ten times more microbial cells than our own cells—representing close to one thousand different species. "And yet, if ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fibre may keep asthma, diabetes at bay, study finds

Insoluble dietary fibre, or roughage, not only keeps you regular, say Australian scientists, it also plays a vital role in the immune system, keeping certain diseases at bay.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Children's gut bacteria linked to type 1 diabetes

University of Florida researchers have found that the variety of bacteria in a child’s digestive tract is strongly linked to whether that child develops type 1 diabetes. The connection could eventually give doctors an early ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Salmonella Spills its Secrets on the Space Shuttle

Salmonella, what's gotten into you? Researchers have been asking themselves this question ever since Salmonella bacteria grown on board the space shuttle returned to Earth 3 to 7 times more virulent than S ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Body's bacteria affect atherosclerosis

New findings suggesting that bacteria in the mouth and/or intestine can affect the the outcome pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and lead to new treatment strategies, reveals research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Amid the murk of 'gut flora,' vitamin D receptor emerges as a key player

Within the human digestive tract is a teeming mass of hundreds of types of bacteria, a potpourri of microbes numbering in the trillions that help us digest food and keep bad bacteria in check.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gut bacteria can control organ functions

Bacteria in the human gut may not just be helping digest food but also could be exerting some level of control over the metabolic functions of other organs, like the liver, according to research published this week in the ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Artificial intestine helps fight bad gut bacteria

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell professor John March is attempting to transform bacteria in our gut into disease-fighting machines. Now, thanks to two members of his research team, he has a powerful new tool to help ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rifaximin provides significant relief of irritable bowel syndrome symptoms

A pair of clinical trials, conducted in part at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, found that two weeks of treatment with rifaximin provides significant relief of irritable bowel syndrome symptoms ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 05, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast