This month’s 5-minute microbiome science roundup includes some important papers published this month related to both health and disease. The two colorectal cancer microbiome-related papers published in Nature are a sign that the field is beginning […]
Why Phages, and Why Now? Many modern diseases have been linked to alterations in the microbiome and changing it back could be the key to restoring health. Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that kill bacteria with […]
This interview was originally published on the Biofortis Mérieux NutriSciences’ Blog. Pr Nicola Segata (Centre for Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Italy) received a €10,000 award from Institut Mérieux, on March 13th at Pharmabiotics 2019 to support his research […]
Three studies published in the journal Gut over the past 5 years describe how the gut microbiome of African infants is affected not only by dietary iron but also by the combination of iron with antibiotics […]
Kristina Campbell talks to Aoife Brennan to find out how Synlogic is pioneering the development of engineered probiotics to deliver specific functions in the human body to compliment for deficiencies brought about by disease.
Following Biofortis first paper The human microbiome: a global overview of clinical trials activity, this article compares the emergence of the human microbiome field with the rise of human genomics through a review on how […]
March saw the publication of many excellent scientific publications related to different aspects of the microbiome. Here’s a 5-minute roundup of 5 recent papers worth knowing about. A Weaning Reaction to Microbiota Is Required for […]
While the microbiome space is often compared to the traditional pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, the scientific, regulatory, and marketing strategies for microbiome products and platforms often differ from those centered on a single small molecule or large […]
Seventure Partners, one of Europe’s leaders in financing innovation and a world-leader in life science microbiome investment, announces it has completed the first closing of its second dedicated fund focused on the microbiome, and health, […]
Probiota Copenhagen 2019 broke a new record, going from 250 attendees last year to 350 and sold out! Why? Because of its unique approach to bringing together stakeholders from the industry, the academy, CROs and […]
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Biology and Biomedicine category has gone in this eleventh edition to American researcher Jeffrey Gordon, for his fundamental discovery of the importance of the gut microbial […]