Along with the genomic data gleaned from the sequencing of complete human genomes, HLI will also be generating
microbiome data for many of these individuals through its Biome Healthcare division, under the leadership of Karen Nelson, Ph.D..
Not exact matches
«We wanted to do something that had never been done, which was to gather this huge
microbiome data set and generate value
for suffering people,» she says.
Biotech's Encouraging Phase 2 Gut
Microbiome Data «Bodes Well»
for Phase 3 Source: Streetwise Reports (3/14/18) H.C. Wainwright & Co. analyst Ram Selvaraju reported the latest study findings involving this biotherapeutic firm's lead asset.
The contribution of the mode of delivery to the infant
microbiome has been evaluated.13, 15,24 However, no study has examined the effects of delivery mode and breastfeeding following adjustment
for the other, and, to our knowledge, there are few
data on the effects of combination feeding (feeding breast milk and formula together).
If hormone surges are important
for the
microbiome transmission during labor and in breast milk, as the unplanned Cesarean
data suggest, how could the natural hormone surges of labor be mimicked
for planned Cesarean?
This is a highly limiting factor
for research, because it complicates the annotation of
data obtained by molecular techniques, and because it has been shown that gut
microbiomes are to some extent specific to their host, and researchers have been using strains of other origin in mouse models.
When the team looked
for it in
data from the Human
Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that it was present in 73 per cent of all 466 faecal samples.
Referring to these associations in bipolar subjects, Dr. Simon Evans concluded that, «The
data support the hypothesis that targeting the
microbiome may be an effective treatment paradigm
for bipolar disorder.»
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.
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.
In addition to genetic
data and
microbiome composition, the information collected
for each study participant included dietary habits, lifestyle, medications and additional measurements.
Seres Therapeutics (MCRB) Presents New Preclinical
Data Supporting the Development of
Microbiome Therapeutics
for Immuno - Oncology at AACR
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.
NIH recently awarded $ 8.2 million to four sequencing centers, to start building a framework and
data resources
for the Human
Microbiome Project.
Nephele: A cloud platform
for simplified, standardized, and reproducible
microbiome data analysis — Nick Weber — Bioinformatics — October 2017
Bioconductor Workflow
for Microbiome Data Analysis: from raw reads to community analyses — Ben Callahan — F1000 Research — November 2016
«By leveraging
data and insights across disciplines, we hope to accelerate development of new preventive therapies
for human diseases and influence policies that promote a healthy
microbiome.»
Our research includes software
for aligning and assembling RNA - seq
data, whole - genome assembly, and
microbiome analysis.
This pilot will focus on mining available datasets
for microbiome signatures as well as collating
data from mouse models.
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