Some especially good work was published in the microbiome scientific literature this past month. Several of the papers below constitute important investigations that are likely to shape new areas of study or spur new medical […]
Millions of people take capsules of probiotics with the goal of improving their digestion, but what if those bacteria were also able to detect diseases in the gut and indicate when something is awry? New […]
The first time Vayu Maini Rekdal manipulated microbes, he made a decent sourdough bread. At the time, young Maini Rekdal, and most people who head to the kitchen to whip up a salad dressing, pop […]
Speakers: Thomas Tompkins, R&D Manager & Ghania Sohail, Clinical Research Associate – Rosell Institute for Microbiome & Probiotics by Lallemand
This month’s roundup includes a study on a unique gut-microbiota-modulating dietary intervention (vegetables rich in inulin-type fructans), and a study on how gut microbiota might predict Crohn’s disease recurrence after ileal resection. Furthermore, several different […]
Yale researchers identified human gut microbes that metabolize over 150 therapeutic drugs, a finding that highlights the role bacteria play in determining how well individuals respond to medications, they report June 3 in the journal […]
A new study led by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is the first to have observed the complex set of chemical and molecular […]
Topical application of beneficial lactobacilli and potentially other ‘live biotherapeutic products’ (LBPs) show great potential as an alternative strategy to tackle skin care problems related to disturbance of the skin microbiome, providing alternatives to the […]
Caelus Health, EnteroBiotix, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, and MaaT Pharma, in coordination with the Pharmabiotic Research Institute (PRI), are working in collaboration within the ‘Intestinal Microbiome-based Medicines European Task Group (IMM-ETG)’ to propose a harmonised, pan-European, regulatory […]
Dr Lindsay Hall of the Quadram Institute talks to us about the preterm infant gut microbiota and its modulation.