by Ananya Sen, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate student Veronika Dubinkina of Bioengineering, Professor of Bioengineering and Bliss faculty scholar Sergei Maslov, MIT postdoctoral fellow Akshit Goyal, and graduate student Tong Wang of Physics. Credit: Julia Pollack, University of Illinois The human gut consists of a complex...
by King’s College London Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Over-60s with a good appetite have more diverse and different communities of microbes in their gut than those with a poor appetite, a study has found. The study, published today in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle from King’s College London and the University of Southampton, is the first...
by Oregon Health & Science University Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research in mice published today in the journal Scientific Reports strengthens the growing scientific consensus regarding the role of the gut microbiome in neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer’s disease. The study, led by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University, found a correlation between the composition of the gut...
by University of Helsinki Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Exploring exposure to superbacteria, researchers at the University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital got unexpected results from an international collaborative study conducted in real time among 20 travelers to Southeast Asia. All the participants were found to contract superbacteria within a week after arriving in the destination. A detailed...
by Osaka City University Credit: Satoshi Uematsu, Osaka City University In a study published in Gastroenterology—Researchers at Osaka City University and the Institute for Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, in collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, report the intestinal bacterial and viral metagenome information from the fecal samples of patients with recurrent Clostridioides difficile...
NANJING UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LIFE SCIENCES IMAGE: SMECTITE MICROSPHERES SPECIFICALLY SUPPORT THE TYPICAL PROBIOTICS, L. ACIDOPHILUS AND B. LONGUM TO FORM BIOFILMS ON THE SURFACE. CREDIT: LEI DONG, NANJING UNIVERSITY Scientists from Nanjing University and the University of Macau have devised a new approach to extend the survival of transplanted probiotics in vivo, enhancing the...
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE The discovery of an “Achilles heel” in a type of gut bacteria that causes intestinal inflammation in patients with Crohn’s disease may lead to more targeted therapies for the difficult to treat disease, according to Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators. In a study published Feb. 3 in Cell Host and Microbe, the...
by Greta Lorge, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory A scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli, which are one of many strains of bacteria found in mammalian guts. Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health The prevalence of anxiety disorders, already the most common mental illness in many countries, including the U.S., has...
VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Feb. 2, 2021) — What does bile acid production in the digestive tract have to do with Parkinson’s disease? Quite a lot, according to a sweeping new analysis published in the journal Metabolites. The findings reveal that changes in the gut microbiome — the rich population of helpful microbes that call the...
by Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT researchers have developed an “organs-on-a-chip” system that replicates interactions between the brain, liver, and colon. Credit: Martin Trapecar, MIT In many ways, our brain and our digestive tract are deeply connected. Feeling nervous may lead to physical pain in the stomach, while hunger signals from the gut make us feel irritable. Recent...
