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To find out what was going on in the microbiomes of four sets of differently shaped identical twins, researchers transferred some gut bacteria from a lean (human) twin to a sterile mouse: one with no foreign bacteria at all.

I agree and you know that emulsifiers are gut microbiome killers causing the gut to look like IBD or metabolic syndrome, at least in mice for now!

Experts are realizing the importance of a well - balanced microbiome (the collection of bacteria your baby inherits at birth) because it literally sets the stage for your overall gut and immune system health for years to come.

«Further studies are needed to delineate if specific changes in maternal diet during breast - feeding alter the infant gut microbiome and to determine if this results in any health consequences for the infant,» said Kristen Meyer, in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine and the presenter of the study at the SMFM annual conference.

In a study to be presented Thursday, Jan. 26, in the oral plenary session at 1:15 p.m. PST, at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, researchers with Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas and University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, will present their findings on a study titled, Maternal Diet Structures the Breast Milk Microbiome in Association with Human Milk Oligosaccharides and Gut - Associated Bacteria.

Although only ten women were followed, it is intriguing that the breast milk microbiome of women delivering via planned Cesarean at birth, one month, and six months post-birth, was more similar to their gut microbiome than the breast milk of mothers who delivered vaginally [4].

Oligosaccharides in breast milk are thought to promote Bifidobacterium growth, 35 and decreased Bifidobacterium in infancy has been found to be associated with an increased risk for being overweight at age 10 years.36 Many formulas are supplemented with prebiotics such as short - chain galacto - oligosaccharides and long - chain fructo - oligosaccharides that increase the overall representation of Bifidobacterium in the microbiome of formula - fed infants, and similar to breast milk, promote lactate and short - chain fatty acid prevalence in the infant gut (reviewed in the study by Oozeer et al37).

In another animal microbiome experiment, Jeffrey Gordon, a biologist at Washington University in St. Louis, took a suite of microbes from the guts of both obese and lean mice and transplanted them into the guts of microbe - free mice.

Through projects at Duke Health, DCRI and the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Armstrong and other Duke scientists are assessing the most effective strategies to reduce obesity in children, including programs that offer at - risk children access to free medical care, partnerships with municipal recreation programs across North Carolina, and even studying children's gut bacteria to determine how the gut microbiome is related to weight.

Nevertheless, carefully regulated probiotics, which introduce nonpathogenic competitors to disease, could be effective at balancing the gut microbiome.

But at least one procedure that allows doctors to manipulate the gut microbiome is already here.

The researchers sampled participants» gut microbiomes again at the end of the exercise program and after another six weeks of sedentary behavior.

By chemically removing the gut microbiome in zebrafish in the lab and then repopulating the gut with two to three bacterial species, University of Oregon biologist Karen Guillemin has shown that certain microbes are especially skilled at suppressing the host immune system and preventing inflammation — a discovery she thinks may have implications for human health.

A new study from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham shows that Parkinson's disease, and medications to treat Parkinson's, have distinct effects on the composition of the trillions of bacteria that make up the gut microbiome.

To investigate, researchers from the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, led by Amir Bashan, PhD, and Yang - Yu Liu, PhD, analyzed data from large metagenomic datasets (e.g. the Human Microbiome Project and Student Microbiome Project) to look at the dynamics of the gut, mouth and skin microbiomes of healthy subjects.

«Every human carries trillions of bacteria in their gut (gut microbiome) and recent advances in research indicate that these tiny passengers play an important role in our overall health maintenance,» says Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD, assistant professor of pathology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.

«The intestinal bacteria, or «gut microbiome,» you develop at a very young age, can have a big impact on your health for the rest of your life,» said the study's lead author Dan Knights, a University of Minnesota assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Biotechnology Institute.

«Most studies looking at benefits from soluble corn fiber are trying to solve digestion problems, and we are the first to determine that this relationship of feeding certain kind of fiber can alter the gut microbiome in ways that can enhance health,» Weaver said.

In the review, Amanda Forde, PhD, and Colin Hill, PhD, of the APC Microbiome Institute at University College Cork, in Ireland, note that phages have complex relationships with bacteria in the gut that could affect health and disease.

«Greater diversity of bacteria in the gut microbiome is associated with both a higher response rate to treatment and longer progression - free survival,» said study leader Jennifer Wargo, M.D., associate professor of Surgical Oncology at MD Anderson.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine report that in a mouse model of ALS, the compound butyrate helped correct a gut microbiome imbalance and reduced gut leakiness — both symptoms of ALS.

«We set out to find out about human genes that are implicated in the regulation of the gut microbiome, and we found some that are,» says senior author Ruth Ley, an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology at Cornell University and the study's senior author.

«In the future, such efforts could allow us to much better understand human - microbiome interactions, model malnutrition disorders and inflammatory diseases of the gut, and perform personalized drug testing,» said co-first author Alessio Tovaglieri, a Graduate Student at the Department of Health Science and Technology at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, who performs his thesis work on Ingber's team.

(American Gut is a crowd - sourced project aimed at characterizing the human microbiome by the Rob Knight Lab at the University of California San Diego.)

«This tells us the microbiome has relevance beyond the gut, and that it is a potential biomarker for asthma,» said Dr. David Perkins, professor of medicine and surgery at UIC, who jointly operates the lab with Finn.

Scientists at the Science Foundation Ireland - funded APC Microbiome Institute at University College Cork, Ireland, have shown that, at least in mice, gut bacteria play a key role in regulating abdominal pain and its associated changes in the brain and spinal cord.

The work also highlights a connection between gut microbes and brain function that scientists are only just beginning to understand, says Ted Dinan of the Microbiome Institute at the University College Cork, Ireland.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Columbia University in the United States have developed a way to study the functions of hard - to - grow bacteria that contribute to the composition of the gut microbiome.

Michael Blaut, a microbiologist at the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Potsdam, Germany, says the mouse data are «believable and remarkable,» but says he has a hard time imagining a mechanism that would account for three compounds as chemically different as aspartame, saccharin, and sucralose leading to the same changes in the gut microbiome.

The gut microbiome is the population of microbes living within the human intestine, consisting of tens of trillions of microorganisms (including at least 1,000 different species of known bacteria).

To detect NAFLD earlier and more easily, researchers in the NAFLD Research Center at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Human Longevity, Inc. and the J. Craig Venter Institute report that the unique microbial makeup of a patient's stool sample — or gut microbiome — can be used to predict advanced NAFLD with 88 to 94 percent accuracy.

Researchers at the University of Montreal, in Canada, have characterized the gut microbiome of the Canadian Arctic Inuit for the first time.

«We found that when you perturb gut microbes early in life among mice and then stop the antibiotics, the microbes normalize but the effects on host metabolism are permanent,» says senior author Martin Blaser, MD, the Muriel G. and George W. Singer Professor of Translational Medicine, director of the NYU Human Microbiome Program, and professor of microbiology at NYU School of Medicine.

«Our stomachs produce gastric acid to kill ingested microbes, and taking a medication to suppress gastric acid secretion can change the composition of the gut microbiome,» said senior author Bernd Schnabl, MD, associate professor of gastroenterology at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

HEIDELBERG, 11 March 2015 — Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Columbia University in the United States have developed a way to study the functions of hard - to - grow bacteria that contribute to the composition of the gut microbiome.

Rob Knight is a computational biology pioneer, co-founder of the American Gut Project and director of the new Microbiome Initiative at the University of California, San Diego.

The explosion of microbiome science has also fuelled a gold rush among companies and individuals offering dietary advice, self - help books aimed at targeting our gut microbes, and probiotics, which are foods or supplements that contain live bacteria and yeasts.

We would like to go even smaller, and compress these capabilities into a pill that you could swallow so you could analyze the human microbiome — or metabolome or even the proteinome — at any point in the gut.

Seres Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRB) today announced that new preclinical data supporting the development of microbiome therapeutics for immuno - oncology (leveraging gut microbiota to impact tumor immunotherapy) 1 will be presented today by Sceneay et al in the late breaking poster session at the 2018 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting (AACR) in Chicago.

Embriette Hyde, project manager at the American Gut Project, points out that it can be very challenging to isolate the roles of individual microbes within the «complex tangle» of microbiomes.

Luis Pedro Coelho and his colleagues at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, in collaboration with Nestlé Research, studied the gut microbiome (the genetic material belonging to the microbiota) of beagles and retrievers.

At PNNL, she leads research into the microbiome, a term for the collective communities of microbes that reside in many environmental niches, including the human gut and soil.

Another study from Sweden even demonstrated that the specific microbiome composition occurring in Alzheimer's patients induces the development of disease - specific amyloid - beta plaques, thereby establishing a direct functional link between the gut microbiome and Alzheimer's disease — at least in mice.

The gut microbiome — a collection of bacteria and other microbes in the gut — could be a highly accurate predictor of hospitalizations for patients with cirrhosis, according to a recently published study led by a researcher at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Multi-site human microbiome Review: The Vagus Nerve at the Interface of the Microbiota - Gut - Brain Axis.

Bile acids at the cross-roads of gut microbiome - host cardiometabolic interactions.

The new paper, titled «Using Machine Learning to Identify Major Shifts in Human Gut Microbiome Protein Family Abundance in Disease,» was presented last month at the IEEE International Conference on Big Data.

She's looking at the gut microbiome and how it might influence how effective a drug is or how safe it is.

Herein we propose a variant of Koch's postulates, aimed at providing a framework to establish causation in microbiome studies, with a particular focus on demonstrating the health - promoting role of the commensal gut microbiota.

Krautkramer et al. at the University of Wisconsin - Madison demonstrate in this study that the gut microbiome regulates global histone acetylation and methylation not only in the colon, but also in tissues outside the gut (i.e. liver and fat).