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.
«Based on our research, we identified more than a dozen microbes with known links to health that are heritable,» says Ley, also director of the Department
of Microbiome Science at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany.
Not exact matches
DuPont Nutrition & Health announces the development
of a significant new initiative with the creation
of a
Microbiome Venture to spearhead development of new microbiome science - based
Microbiome Venture to spearhead development
of new
microbiome science - based
microbiome science - based solutions.
For those who have no idea about the
science of the
microbiome and the
science of epigenetics, such an effort makes perfect sense:
It draws on our extensive interviews with key scientists working at the front - line
of microbiome and epigenetic research with the aim
of presenting complex
science in a way that is easy - to - understand and accessible to all.
Bridget also runs the Facebook page «Seeding Baby's
Microbiome» a source for health professionals and parents alike to keep up to date with the latest
science and understanding
of giving baby the best microbial start.
«The discovery
of the
microbiome and its significance represents a huge paradigm shift in our understanding
of human health — there are more microbes living on us and in us than our own cells,» said Ingber, who is also the Judah Folkman Professor
of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor
of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School
of Engineering and Applied
Science.
The January 11, 2014, issue
of Science News focused on the
microbiome, the diverse collection
of microbes that reside in and on humans and other organisms.
France Córdova, director
of the National
Science Foundation, also addressed the forum, saying NSF's agenda over the next decade will come from «10 big ideas» including understanding the changing Artic, leveraging artificial intelligence, harnessing big data, developing quantum enabled technology, studying the
microbiome and advancing research about gravitational waves.
«Early life exposure to lead causes a long lasting impact on gut
microbiome, and the change
of gut
microbiome may partially contribute to the increased body weight in adult life,» said lead author Chuanwu Xi, associate professor
of environmental health
science.
«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.
«The more we know about the microbial communities in a given environment, the more likely it is we can reshape them to improve environmental and human health,» said senior author Rob Knight, PhD, professor
of pediatrics and computer
science and engineering, and director
of the Center for
Microbiome Innovation at UC San Diego.
«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.
«We are about six months away from having the data to completely describe the bacterial
microbiome of grapevine tumors,» said Michael Savka, professor
of biological
sciences in the Thomas H. Gosnell School
of Life
Sciences at RIT, and organizer and contributor
of the international study.
Anthony Fiumera, associate professor
of biological
sciences, and Gretchen Mahler, assistant professor
of biomedical engineering, are collaborating on a research project funded by a Binghamton University Transdisciplinary Areas
of Excellence (TAE) grant to discover the role ingested nanoparticles play in the physiology and function
of the gut and gut
microbiome.
Eran Elinav, an immunologist and
microbiome specialist at the Weizmann Institute
of Science in Rehovot, Israel, wondered whether the microbes» own circadian rhythms were a missing piece
of the puzzle.
Knight was also part
of a group
of U.S. scientists who co-authored a recent
Science paper calling for a nationwide Unified
Microbiome Initiative.
Advances in molecular genetics have propelled progress in fields that deal with inherited diseases, cancer, personalized medicine, genetic counseling, the
microbiome, diagnosis and discovery
of viruses, taxonomy
of species, genealogy, forensic
science, epigenetics, junk DNA, gene therapy and gene editing.
Jonathan Schertzer, assistant professor
of biochemistry and biomedical
sciences and senior author
of a paper published by Cell Metabolism, explains it this way: «We know that gut bacteria, often called the
microbiome, send inflammation signals that change how well insulin works to lower blood glucose.
Evaluating the
microbiome of two sampling locations in the nasal cavity
of cattle with bovine respiratory disease complex (BRDC)-- Tara G McDaneld — Journal
of Animal
Science
Washington, D.C. — May 13, 2016 — In support
of a National
Microbiome Initiative launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and to accelerate discovery in the field of microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation has committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microb
Microbiome Initiative launched by the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy and to accelerate discovery in the field
of microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation has committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microb
microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation has committed $ 1 million to a Kavli
Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microb
Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development
of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microbial scale.
Today's digest is short and sweet, but includes exciting
science that explores how a vegan diet modulates the gut
microbiome and new techniques for detection
of DNA SNIPs.
Other investigators on this study were Caitlin E. Millett, graduate student, psychiatry and neural and behavioral
sciences; Dahlia Mukherjee, postdoctoral fellow, and Aubrey Reider, research assistant, in the Department
of Psychiatry, and Shannon L. Kelleher, an associate professor
of cellular and molecular physiology, pharmacology, and surgery; Adem Can, University
of Maryland School
of Medicine; Maureen Groer, University
of South Florida, School
of Nursing, and Innsbruck Medical University, Austria; Dietmar Fuchs, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria; and Teodor T. Postolache, University
of Maryland School
of Medicine, Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), and The Military and Veteran
Microbiome Consortium for Research and Education, MVM — Core.
His lab and lab members have and continue to work on some
of the most important
microbiome studies around the world — their research appears regularly in leading scientific journals such as
Science, Nature, PNAS, PLOS and so forth.
Today, the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), in collaboration with Federal agencies and private - sector stakeholders, is announcing a new National
Microbiome Initiative (NMI) to foster the integrated study
of microbiomes across different ecosystems, and is hosting an event to bring together stakeholders vital to advancing the NMI.
«
Microbiomes sustain life on our planet and they are laboratories
of novelty, green chemistry, and life - changing pharmaceuticals,» said Jeff F. Miller, director
of the California NanoSystems Institute and the corresponding author
of the
Science paper.
American Society for Microbiology Launches the Kavli
Microbiome Ideas Challenge In Partnership with Two Leading Scientific Societies Washington, D.C. — May 13, 2016 - In support
of a National
Microbiome Initiative launched by the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy...
Earlier this year, the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a national call to action on microbiome s
Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a national call to action on
microbiome sciencescience.
In May, the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy announced the National
Microbiome Initiative, a collaboration between several federal agencies, universities, and private foundations.
A long digest today — lots
of science on the gut, environment, and some interesting editorials on techniques, bioinformatics, and methodologies applied to
microbiome studies.
The company in the works, fitBiomics, taps a swiftly expanding field
of science analyzing the human
microbiome.
In support
of a National
Microbiome Initiative launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and to accelerate discovery in the field of microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microb
Microbiome Initiative launched by the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy and to accelerate discovery in the field
of microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microb
microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation committed $ 1 million to a Kavli
Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microb
Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development
of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microbial scale.
The paper calling for a Unified
Microbiome Initiative can be found in the October 30 issue
of Science (http://www.sciencemag.org/) or through a portal available at: http://www.asm.org/index.php/asm-newsroom2/press-releases/93830-american-society-for-microbiology-members-propose-initiative-to-harness-earth-s-microbiomes
The group
of scientists who issued the call for a «Unified
Microbiome Project» proposed a large - scale, public and private initiative to advance the
science of microbiomes through the development
of new research tools and interdisciplinary collaborations.
In the roundtable, they discussed the importance
of the
microbiome, the necessity for collaboration across different fields
of science, and where they hope the
science is leading.
April 19, 2018 - WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — For the seventh year in a row, Dannon ®, as a part
of Danone North America, has demonstrated their commitment to
science and education through the Dannon ® Gut
Microbiome, Yogurt and Probiotics Fellowship Grant Program.
In addition, our basic
science and translational research efforts — particularly in the areas
of the gut
microbiome, immunology, and microbiology — are contributing to the scientific advancement in the development, prevention, and treatment
of IBD, and to the promise
of more effective treatment strategies for future patients.
Development
of HipMCL was primarily supported by the U.S. Department
of Energy's Office
of Science via the Exascale Solutions for
Microbiome Analysis (ExaBiome) project, which is developing exascale algorithms and software to address current limitations in metagenomics research.
Effects
of high ambient temperature on the community structure and composition
of ileal
microbiome of broilers — X J Wang — Poultry
Science
Water and extremophile
microbiome Antimicrobial properties and the influence
of temperature on secondary metabolite production in cold environment soil fungi — Yogabaanu Ulaganathan — Polar
Science
There is high diversity
of studies, with a high abundance
of gut
microbiome studies, a few publications on fecal transplant, and some very interesting early life / pregnancy / mother - infant
science.
On May 13, 2016, the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) launched the National
Microbiome Initiative (NMI).
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Several recent
science studies have claimed that the gut
microbiome — the diverse array
of bacteria that live in the stomach and intestines — may be to blame for obesity.
More than a dozen federal departments and agencies support
microbiome research today, and the magnitude
of investment has recently grown: A 2015 report released by the National
Science and Technology Council noted that annual federal investment into
microbiome research tripled over fiscal years 2012 — 2014, with more than $ 922 million invested during this three - year period.
Our understanding
of the diversity and roles
of these
microbiomes is limited, a fact that led the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy to launch the National
Microbiome Initiative last year.
«The discovery
of the
microbiome and its significance represents a huge paradigm shift in our understanding
of human health» there are more microbes living on us and in us than our own cells,» said Ingber, who is also the Judah Folkman Professor
of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor
of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School
of Engineering and Applied
Science.
In support
of a National
Microbiome Initiative launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and to accelerate discovery in the field of microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation has committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microb
Microbiome Initiative launched by the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy and to accelerate discovery in the field
of microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation has committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microb
microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation has committed $ 1 million to a Kavli
Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microb
Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development
of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microbial scale.
Members
of the Unified
Microbiome Initiative Consortium describe the Unified
Microbiome Initiative (UMI), in the October 28 online edition
of Science, in «A unified initiative to harness Earth's
microbiomes.»
Together with Dan Knights, PhD, Assistant Professor
of Computer
Science and Biotechnology at the University
of Minnesota, Dr. Blekhman and colleagues developed a method to predict the types
of mutations present in a tumor based on its
microbiome.
On January 15, a microbiologist and a neuroscientist will discuss the emerging
science of the human
microbiome, which is more intimately linked to human health than ever imagined.