Dr. Ghannoum is widely considered the leading
microbiome researcher in the world.
Not exact matches
In a recent study, researchers in Sweden came up with a mathematical formula to help find the right eating plan for each person based on his or her microbiom
In a recent study,
researchers in Sweden came up with a mathematical formula to help find the right eating plan for each person based on his or her microbiom
in Sweden came up with a mathematical formula to help find the right eating plan for each person based on his or her
microbiome.
And now,
researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology
in Sweden have come up with a mathematical formula to find the right diet for each individual's
microbiome that will help them lose weight and prevent certain diseases.
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.
In this study, researchers found that specific changes to maternal diet in the same woman (changing fat versus carbohydrate consumption, or changing consumption of specific sugars), is associated with changes in both the milk microbiome and human milk oligosaccharide (a carbohydrate) compositio
In this study,
researchers found that specific changes to maternal diet
in the same woman (changing fat versus carbohydrate consumption, or changing consumption of specific sugars), is associated with changes in both the milk microbiome and human milk oligosaccharide (a carbohydrate) compositio
in the same woman (changing fat versus carbohydrate consumption, or changing consumption of specific sugars), is associated with changes
in both the milk microbiome and human milk oligosaccharide (a carbohydrate) compositio
in both the milk
microbiome and human milk oligosaccharide (a carbohydrate) composition.
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.
Toay,
researchers look to the
microbiomes of people still living
in traditional societies, such as the Yanomami, for clues about the bacterial colonies of our pre-industrial ancestors.
Ancient DNA analysis of
microbiomes is
in the early stages, but numerous studies of the
microbiomes of today's traditional societies hint at what
researchers may find.
Thanks to powerful gene - sequencing techniques developed
in the past two decades during the race to decode the human genome,
researchers are beginning to reconstruct what our ancestors»
microbiomes looked like, potentially going back thousands of years.
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.
Preliminary work by other groups, similarly made up of both biomedical
researchers and microbial ecologists, suggests that imbalances
in the
microbiome might also be linked to allergies, diabetes, and obesity.
And the
researchers are continuing to investigate the role breast milk plays
in maintaining and encouraging the growth of a healthy gut
microbiome.
The Duke medical
researchers and ecologists who have joined that project hope to identify which species flourish
in early stages of the human
microbiome, how they are influenced by the consumption of breast milk, and what role they play
in critical diseases affecting infants as well as
in chronic diseases that occur later
in life.
In a series of elaborate experiments
researchers from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital discovered that mouse poop is chock full of tiny, noncoding RNAs called microRNAs from their gastrointestinal (GI) tracts and that these biomolecules appear to shape and regulate the
microbiome.
If
researchers can get a handle on the gut
microbiome's role, Baranzini can imagine a day when probiotics can be used to shift the composition of microbes
in the gut to reduce inflammation.
He notes, however, that
researchers need to develop more rigorous ways to test the role of the gut
microbiome in controlling immune reactions.
In a study of 58 adults seeking outpatient eye care,
researchers at New York University School of Medicine found that contact lenses make the eye
microbiome more skin - like, with higher proportions of the skin bacteria Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter, Methylobacterium, and Lactobacillus and lower proportions of Haemophilus, Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, and Corynebacterium.
When the
researchers expanded their search to include all the 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 the same virus was present
in 73 per cent of all 466 human faecal samples.
The
researchers explored changes to the body's bacteria (
microbiome)
in two ways.
In a study to be presented on Feb. 5 at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in Atlanta, researchers will present findings from a study titled, Maternal Diet Alters the Breast Milk Microbiome and Microbial Gene Conten
In a study to be presented on Feb. 5 at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™,
in Atlanta, researchers will present findings from a study titled, Maternal Diet Alters the Breast Milk Microbiome and Microbial Gene Conten
in Atlanta,
researchers will present findings from a study titled, Maternal Diet Alters the Breast Milk
Microbiome and Microbial Gene Content.
Now a group of physicians have designed the fecal treatment's first double - blind trial,
in which neither patient nor
researcher knows whether a placebo or a healthy
microbiome is being delivered to the ailing gut.
Now,
researchers reporting February 25
in Cell Reports describe an intermediate gut
microbiome from the Central African Republic's Bantu community, a traditional population that incorporates some westernized lifestyle practices.
In addition, the
researchers showed that the CRISPR system could be used to selectively remove specific bacteria from diverse bacterial communities based on their genetic signatures, thus opening up the potential for «
microbiome editing» beyond antimicrobial applications.
«These are the best - done and largest assessments of how the
microbiome may influence therapeutic outcome» from those drugs, says immunotherapy
researcher Jeffrey Weber of New York University
in New York City, who was not involved
in the studies.
However,
in a new study appearing
in the journal PLOS ONE,
researchers have turned to analyzing the human
microbiome, the bacteria and other microbes that live on and
in our bodies, for clues about the postmortem interval of a cadaver.
Researchers have also detected a change
in the rodents»
microbiome, the natural microbial community
in their guts.
Writing online
in the journal Molecular Cell, a team of
researchers from the University of Wisconsin - Madison describes new research helping tease out the mechanics of how the gut
microbiome communicates with the cells of its host to switch genes on and off.
But
in the past decade,
researchers have come to appreciate that the bacteria living
in and on our bodies — collectively called the human
microbiome — play a role
in how our bodies work, affecting everything from allergies to obesity.
In a final experiment, the
researchers probed deeper into the human
microbiome.
Researchers have found that flowers are a hot spot of transmission of bacteria that end up
in the
microbiome of wild bees.
In a study appearing in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers at The Ohio State University and their colleagues have demonstrated how two separate effects of climate change combine to destabilize different populations of coral microbes — that is, unbalance the natural coral «microbiome» — opening the door for bad bacteria to overpopulate corals» mucus and their bodies as a whol
In a study appearing
in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers at The Ohio State University and their colleagues have demonstrated how two separate effects of climate change combine to destabilize different populations of coral microbes — that is, unbalance the natural coral «microbiome» — opening the door for bad bacteria to overpopulate corals» mucus and their bodies as a whol
in the journal PLOS ONE,
researchers at The Ohio State University and their colleagues have demonstrated how two separate effects of climate change combine to destabilize different populations of coral microbes — that is, unbalance the natural coral «
microbiome» — opening the door for bad bacteria to overpopulate corals» mucus and their bodies as a whole.
But
researchers suspected the yellow scroll coral would also have the edge when it came to microbes because it makes more mucus, and most microbes
in the coral
microbiome live
in the mucus that oozes over the outside of their bodies.
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.
Reducing this gut - associated inflammation has been a goal of clinicians and
researchers, and rebalancing the gut
microbiome has shown promise
in small - animal studies.
The
researchers discovered that the ancient human oral
microbiome already contained the basic genetic machinery for antibiotic resistance more than eight centuries before the invention of the first therapeutic antibiotics
in the 1940s.
Now some
researchers are wondering if the
microbiome may have a part
in an even more crucial process: mate selection and, ultimately, evolution.
When the
researchers fed the ALS - prone mice butyrate
in their water, starting when the mice were 35 to 42 days old, the mice showed a restored gut
microbiome profile and improved gut integrity.
In addition, now that researchers have begun to understand how the microbiome changes in the ICU, Wischmeyer says the next step is to use the data to identify therapies — perhaps including probiotics — to restore a healthy bacterial balance to patient
In addition, now that
researchers have begun to understand how the
microbiome changes
in the ICU, Wischmeyer says the next step is to use the data to identify therapies — perhaps including probiotics — to restore a healthy bacterial balance to patient
in the ICU, Wischmeyer says the next step is to use the data to identify therapies — perhaps including probiotics — to restore a healthy bacterial balance to patients.
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.
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.
The
researchers found that mice with gastric acid suppression developed alterations
in their gut
microbiomes.
If
researchers can work out the skin
microbiome and its relationship with complement, they might be able to tweak the microbial population one way or another to, for instance, modulate complement activation
in patients with diseases that are
in part caused by dysregulated or dysfunctional signaling, for example, psoriasis.
In one of the largest longitudinal studies of the microbiome to date, researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and the DIABIMMUNE Study Group have identified a connection between changes in gut microbiota and the onset of type 1 diabetes (T1D
In one of the largest longitudinal studies of the
microbiome to date,
researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and the DIABIMMUNE Study Group have identified a connection between changes
in gut microbiota and the onset of type 1 diabetes (T1D
in gut microbiota and the onset of type 1 diabetes (T1D).
Moreover, using metabolomic analysis (looking at the metabolites — the tiny molecules produced during metabolism —
in subject stool samples), the
researchers were also able to see that, while bacterial species varied between individuals, the biological functions served by the various species
in the
microbiome remained consistent over time, and from person to person.
In future studies, the researchers will examine whether similar mechanisms exist in other insect species and look for additional toxic compounds that shape the microbiome during host developmen
In future studies, the
researchers will examine whether similar mechanisms exist
in other insect species and look for additional toxic compounds that shape the microbiome during host developmen
in other insect species and look for additional toxic compounds that shape the
microbiome during host development.
The new study is one of more than a dozen papers authored or co-authored by CU - Boulder
researchers published
in the past several years on human
microbiomes.
The
researchers suggest that living
in a rural or urban environment may change the intestinal
microbiome, due to different exposures early
in life, resulting
in decreased or increased risk
The
researchers are also exploring whether there are any non-target effects by measuring changes
in the bat skin
microbiome (both fungal and bacterial communities).
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.