The microbiome, or the collections of microorganisms present in the body, is known to affect human health and disease and researchers are thinking about new ways to use them as next-generation diagnostics and therapeutics. ...
Biotechnology
May 29, 2017
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Climate change could threaten reptiles by reducing the number of bacteria living in their guts, new research suggests.
Ecology
May 8, 2017
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Neuroscientists have, for the first time, shown that gut bacteria "speak" to the brain to control food choices in animals. In a study publishing April 25 in the Open Access journal PLOS Biology, researchers identified two ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 25, 2017
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Gut microbes play wide-ranging roles in health and disease, but there has been a lack of tools to probe the relationship between microbial activity and host physiology. Two independent studies in mice published April 20 in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 20, 2017
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Synthetic biologists at Rice University have engineered gut bacteria capable of sensing colitis, an inflammation of the colon, in mice. The research points the way to new experiments for studying how gut bacteria and human ...
Biotechnology
Apr 6, 2017
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New light has been shed on the functioning of human gut bacteria which could help to develop medicines in the future to improve health and wellbeing.
Biochemistry
Mar 22, 2017
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Within the human digestive tract, there are trillions of bacteria, and these communities contain hundreds or even thousands of species. The makeup of those populations can vary greatly from one person to another, depending ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 3, 2017
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Researchers shed new light on the functioning of human gut bacteria, revealing how nutrients are transported into the bacterial cell.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 11, 2017
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The human digestive tract contains trillions of bacteria, many of which help digest food and fight off harmful bacteria. Recent studies have shown that some of these bacteria may influence, for better or worse, human diseases ...
Biochemistry
Sep 14, 2016
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In recent years, numerous diseases have been tied to variations in gut microbiota. The rapidly growing probiotics industry targets gut and intestinal health by developing products built mostly around enzyme cultures and bacteria. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 26, 2016
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