Survey of bacterial genomes highlights the arsenal of enzymes microbes use to produce energy in the oxygen-poor environment of the gutPeer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO The gut microbiome is so useful to human digestion and health that it is often called an extra digestive organ. This vast collection of bacteria and other microorganisms in the...
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Machine learning begins to understand the human gut
The communities formed by human gut microbes can now be predicted more accurately with a new computer model developed in a collaboration between biologists and engineers, led by the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin. The making of the model also suggests a route toward scaling from the 25 microbe species explored to the thousands...
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NTU Singapore scientists develop coated probiotics that could be effectively delivered into the human gut
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY IMAGE: (L-R) MS TAN LI LING, A PHD STUDENT AT NTU’S SCHOOL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING (MSE), AND MSE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOACHIM LOO, PRESENTING THE COATED PROBIOTICS, WHICH THEY DEVELOPED. CREDIT: NTU SINGAPORE Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)have developed probiotics with a unique edible coating that ensures the beneficial...
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Scientists map entire human gut at single cell resolution
by University of North Carolina Health Care Protein MUC5b (red) in crypt-resident goblet cells; MUC2 (green) in all goblet cells. Credit: Magness Lab, UNC School of Medicine If you get nervous, you might feel it in your gut. If you eat chili, your gut might revolt, but your friend can eat anything and feel great....
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Scientists link genetic makeup of bacteria in the human gut to several human diseases
by Harvard Medical School Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain We are truly never alone, not even within our own bodies. Human beings play host to trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microorganisms that make up the human microbiome. In recent years, the mix of these resident bacteria, and the presence of specific bacterial species, has been...
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Predicting microbial interactions in the human gut
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...
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More than 140,000 different viruses live in the human gut
Share on Pinterest The most comprehensive database to date ‘maps out’ the multitude of bacteriophages — bacteria-eating viruses — in the human gut.Greg Pease/Getty Images Our gut is teeming with bacteriophages, which are a type of virus that infects bacteria. Bacteriophages play a vital role in regulating gut bacteria, which, in turn, have a wide...