A number of studies have shown that variations
in the human gut microbiome are associated with different diet compositions as well as a number of medical conditions.
Continued increasing interest
in the human gut microbiome, and how it relates to not only digestive health, but also the health of the immune system, the nervous system, and other major systems in the body.
Using Machine Learning to Identify Major Shifts
in Human Gut Microbiome Protein Family Abundance in Disease
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.
Not exact matches
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.
The company is a pioneer
in the
human microbiome, which is essentially the bacteria that inhabits the
gut and skin
There is growing interest
in the role of the
gut microbiome and its effect on
human health.
Lactobacillus is a probiotic bacteria that is part of a healthy
human microbiome and aids
in digestion and
gut health.
As it turns out,
human milk feeds both the baby AND the good bacteria
in baby's
gut microbiome.
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 Bacteri
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 Bacteri
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 Bacteri
in Association with
Human Milk Oligosaccharides and
Gut - Associated Bacteria.
Few biological mechanisms may explain the inverse relationship between breastfeeding and leukemia including more favorable
microbiome in an infant's
gut and natural - killer and stem cells
in human milk.
Our cover story, «The Ultimate Social Network,» by Jennifer Ackerman, describes the efforts to map our
human microbiome — no easy feat when certain critters, such as the
gut bacteria that prosper
in an oxygen - free environment, are challenging to grow
in petri dishes
in a laboratory.
«Cultural revolution
in the study of the
gut microbiome:
Human gut - on - a-chip technology used to co-culture gut microbiome, human intestinal cells could lead to new therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases.&r
Human gut - on - a-chip technology used to co-culture
gut microbiome,
human intestinal cells could lead to new therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases.&r
human intestinal cells could lead to new therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases.»
Although the mouse
gut microbiome presents a number of similarities with the
human microbiome, the work showed that around 20 percent of the strains
in the collection prefer colonizing the intestines of mice.
In this latest advance reported in PNAS, the Wyss team showed that the human gut - on - a-chip's unique ability to co-culture intestinal cells with living microbes from the normal gut microbiome for an extended period of time, up to two weeks, could allow breakthrough insights into how the microbial communities that flourish inside our GI tracts contribute to human health and diseas
In this latest advance reported
in PNAS, the Wyss team showed that the human gut - on - a-chip's unique ability to co-culture intestinal cells with living microbes from the normal gut microbiome for an extended period of time, up to two weeks, could allow breakthrough insights into how the microbial communities that flourish inside our GI tracts contribute to human health and diseas
in PNAS, the Wyss team showed that the
human gut - on - a-chip's unique ability to co-culture intestinal cells with living microbes from the normal
gut microbiome for an extended period of time, up to two weeks, could allow breakthrough insights into how the microbial communities that flourish inside our GI tracts contribute to
human health and disease.
«The distal
gut of a
human is one of the densest microbial ecosystems on the planet,» says Stanford University microbiologist David Relman, a pioneer
in human microbiome research.
In the last four years, the U.S. - based Human Microbiome Project used genomic analysis to identify bacteria, viruses, fungi, archaea, and protozoa in the noses, gums, tonsils, genital tracts, and guts of 242 healthy Americans between the ages of 18 and 40; more than 11,000 samples were taken in al
In the last four years, the U.S. - based
Human Microbiome Project used genomic analysis to identify bacteria, viruses, fungi, archaea, and protozoa
in the noses, gums, tonsils, genital tracts, and guts of 242 healthy Americans between the ages of 18 and 40; more than 11,000 samples were taken in al
in the noses, gums, tonsils, genital tracts, and
guts of 242 healthy Americans between the ages of 18 and 40; more than 11,000 samples were taken
in al
in all.
As noted by Dr. Vicki Ellingrod — the Chair of this session, «Current state - of - the - art research
in both animal models as well as
humans point to the link between the
gut microbiota and mood and anxiety models, as well as the potential for psychiatric medications to directly affect the
gut microbiome.»
«Because Candida is a natural component of the
human body
microbiome, yeast overgrowth or infection
in the digestive tract, for example, may disrupt the
gut - brain axis.
In 2008, when he fed Lactobacillus to mice with a transplanted human microbiome, he observed metabolic changes in the animals» gut, liver, kidneys, and parts of the brai
In 2008, when he fed Lactobacillus to mice with a transplanted
human microbiome, he observed metabolic changes
in the animals» gut, liver, kidneys, and parts of the brai
in the animals»
gut, liver, kidneys, and parts of the brain.
Like a lush rain forest, a healthy
microbiome in the
human gut is a diverse ecosystem that thrives only when all the interdependent species are healthy too.
The U.S. - based
Human Microbiome Project used genomic analysis to I.D. microbes
in the noses, gums, tonsils, genital tracts and
guts of more than 200 Americans.
«Our new findings suggest that black tea, through a specific mechanism through the
gut microbiome, may also contribute to good health and weight loss
in humans.»
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.
Human milk's most important role could be preventing infant disease and boosting immunity by cultivating a balance of microbes
in the
gut and the rest of the body, a kind of internal ecosystem called the
microbiome.
«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.
Food not metabolized directly by a host like a mouse or a
human is subsequently processed
in the
gut by the bacteria of the
microbiome.
ET: «What this data analysis pipeline, moreover, creates is motivation to look for similar forms of gene loss
in other types of symbioses, such as that between
humans and their
gut microbiomes.
(
Gut bacteria are part of the
microbiome, the larger community of microbes that exist
in and on the
human body.)
The research examining the differences
in infant
gut microbial populations arising from differences in human milk oligosaccharides (sugars), «Maternal Fucosyltransferase 2 Status Affects the Gut Bifidobacterial Communities of Breastfed Infants,» is published online today in the journal Microbiome, a BioMedCentral journ
gut microbial populations arising from differences
in human milk oligosaccharides (sugars), «Maternal Fucosyltransferase 2 Status Affects the
Gut Bifidobacterial Communities of Breastfed Infants,» is published online today in the journal Microbiome, a BioMedCentral journ
Gut Bifidobacterial Communities of Breastfed Infants,» is published online today
in the journal
Microbiome, a BioMedCentral journal.
The lack of fiber
in modern Western diets is often thought to cause harmful perturbations to the
human gut microbiome.
Large - scale genome sequencing efforts, like the
Human Microbiome Project, have focused on the community of microorganisms that live in the human
Human Microbiome Project, have focused on the community of microorganisms that live
in the
humanhuman gut.
Howard Ochman of the University of Austin
in Texas and his team sequenced the
gut microbiomes of hundreds of wild chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas, and those of hundreds of
humans living
in US cities and
in Venezuela and Malawi.
In recent years, the study of human biology has been shaken up by discoveries of how the bacteria that live in the gut, the so - called microbiome, affect metabolism, the immune system, and disease progressio
In recent years, the study of
human biology has been shaken up by discoveries of how the bacteria that live
in the gut, the so - called microbiome, affect metabolism, the immune system, and disease progressio
in the
gut, the so - called
microbiome, affect metabolism, the immune system, and disease progression.
The whipworm lives
in the
human gut, mooching microbes from its host to build its own
microbiome.
«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 tea
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 tea
in Switzerland, who performs his thesis work on Ingber's team.
Warinner and colleague, Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., co-direct OU's Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and
Microbiome Research and the research focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in
Microbiome Research and the research focused on reconstructing the ancestral
human oral and
gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in
microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between
humans and microbes has changed through time and how our
microbiomes influence health and disease
in diverse populations, both today and
in the past.
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.
Gut bacteria that make up the gastrointestinal
microbiome play an important role
in the metabolism of most chemicals
humans ingest, motivating studies of microbe - driven breakdown of clinically important drugs.
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.
Nowadays it is known that archaea exist
in sediments and
in Earth's subsurface as well, but they have only recently been found
in the
human gut and linked with the
human microbiome.
«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.
While strides have been made
in our effort to understand the importance of the complex
human microbiome, the exact functions of the majority of our
gut associates remain unknown, as is their impact on our metabolism and overall physiology.
In recent years, scientists have become aware of the important role of microbes existing inside the
human gastrointestinal tract, called the
gut microbiome.
«Reduction
in dietary diversity impacts richness of
human gut microbiota: Dietary diversity necessary for a healthy gastrointestinal
microbiome.»
From sequencing the first
human genome to conducting some of the earliest work
in understanding the
human gut microbiome, JCVI researchers are pioneers
in mammalian genomics.
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.
While this study goes some way towards establishing a causal relationship between the
gut microbiome and social behaviour
in rodents, the extent to which these findings can relate to
human neurodevelopmental conditions remains to be established.
October 28, 2015 — A consortium of 48 scientists from 50 institutions
in the United States has called for an ambitious research effort to understand and harness
microbiomes — the communities of microorganisms that inhabit ecosystems as varied as the
human gut and the ocean, to improve
human health, agriculture, bioenergy, and the environment.