Scientists discover gut bacteria in bees spread antibiotic-resistant genes to each other
It's the kind of thing you might lose sleep over.
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How honey bee gut bacteria help to digest their pollen-rich diet
The honey bee gut is colonized by specialized bacteria that help digest components of the floral pollen diet and produce molecules that likely promote bee health. In a study publishing 12 December in the open access journal ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 12, 2017
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Lemur study highlights role of diet in shaping gut microbiome
A study of the bacteria in the guts of three lemur species offers new insights into the role of diet in shaping these microbial ecosystems – and how these microbes may relate to primate health.
Plants & Animals
Dec 5, 2017
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Gut bacterium indirectly causes symptoms by altering fruit fly microbiome
CagA, a protein produced by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, can alter the population of microbes living in the fruit fly gut, leading to disease symptoms, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens by Tiffani ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 19, 2017
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Researchers create map of the gut's microbial landscape
A collaborative effort by a team of researchers from three institutions including the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, the Forsyth Institute in Cambridge and Washington University in St. Louis provided an ...
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Oct 11, 2017
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Mixed organization of gut bacteria is revealed by microbiome imaging technology
Disruptions in the microbiome of the human gut are correlated with several diseases, including obesity and cancer. Yet little is known about the spatial organization of the nearly 1,000 bacterial species in the human gut, ...
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Oct 10, 2017
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Does the titanium dioxide in food and nanomaterials affect the gut microbiome?
A new study has shown that the titanium dioxide (TiO2) frequently used in foods, coatings, pigments, and paints that is ingested can affect both the types of bacteria present in the human gut and the pH of the colon. The ...
Environment
Oct 3, 2017
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What's the latest on gut microbiota? Concordia microbiology undergrads publish their findings
How many undergraduate classes in microbiology—or any scientific field, for that matter—can say they're published in a peer-reviewed journal?
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 19, 2017
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Gut microbiota of larvae has an impact on mosquito's ability to transmit human pathogens
Researchers have demonstrated that differential bacterial exposure during the development of mosquito larvae (Aedes aegypti) can influence adult traits related to the transmission of arboviruses. This study represents an ...
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Sep 7, 2017
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Gut bacteria that 'talk' to human cells may lead to new treatments
We have a symbiotic relationship with the trillions of bacteria that live in our bodies—they help us, we help them. It turns out that they even speak the same language. And new research from The Rockefeller University and ...
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Aug 30, 2017
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