by Leibniz-HKI Machine Learning Model to predict potential NAFLD. Credit: Howell Leung/ Leibniz-HKI The human microbiome can provide information regarding the risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. This has been discovered by an international team led by the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology-Hans Knöll Institute. The researchers developed a model that...
CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES HEADQUARTERS Dietary fiber is generally thought to benefit intestinal health. Its impact on the composition and metabolic function of the gut microbiome, however, varies greatly across individuals. Previous studies have shown that each individual’s response to fiber depends on the baseline gut microbiome, but the ecology driving microbiota remodeling during fiber...
by Tom Avril Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello travels to the Amazon jungle and tells villagers the reason for her visit, their first response is often laughter. “Did you come all this way just to see my poop?” they ask. She did—no humor intended—and she has been doing it for more than...
by University of Connecticut Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Eating more meat, having less of certain bacteria in the gut, and more of certain immune cells in the blood, all link with multiple sclerosis, reports a team of researchers led by UConn Health and Washington University School of Medicine. The work, published in the 27 January...
by Kiel University Microscopic image of intestinal tissue. Green: epithelial cells which produce HK2. Red: bacteria inside the intestine. Credit: Saskia Weber-Stiehl, IKMB, Kiel University Around 500 to 1,000 different types of bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms colonize our intestines. All of them together form the intestinal microbiome. As we now know, these microbes play...
by Rutgers University Credit: CC0 Public Domain COVID-19 saliva testing kits that include a novel preservative can also be used measure microscopic organisms in the mouth, a Rutgers study has found. This enables study of the relationship between mouth and lung microbes and the SARS-CoV-2 virus that may allow for the development of new treatments. The...
by Mike Fisher, University of Calgary Enteric neurons and glial cells in the myenteric plexus of the colon in an animal after natural microbial recolonization of the gut following antibiotic treatment. Credit: Laurie Wallace, Sharkey lab University of Calgary researchers probing the gut—”the inner tube of life”—have for the first time discovered specific factors in its...
by Matt Wood, University of Chicago Credit: Shutterstock The term “microbiome” is shorthand for the vast and still largely unexplored worlds of bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microorganisms that inhabit every corner of the planet. Bacteria form tiny ecosystems side by side with our own cells on our skin, in our mouths and along our airways...
by Mette Haagen Marcussen, Technical University of Denmark Graphical abstract. Credit: DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2021.02.053 In the largest study of intestinal bacterial composition (also called the intestinal microbiome) to date in persons with the immunodeficiency selective IgA deficiency, researchers at DTU Bioengineering have ascertained that people with IgA deficiency have a much more frequent incidence of E. coli,...
by Estonian Research Council Relative abundance of phyla (a) and genera (b) under different collection methods on day 0. Taxa with a mean relative abundance of less than 1% were grouped into the rare category. FR fresh-frozen; FIT0 immediately frozen FIT samples; SB0 immediately frozen stabilization buffer samples. Credit: DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99046-w In order to study colorectal cancer...
