Taxonomy is the branch of science that classifies and names organisms. Lactobacillus were first described in 1901 with Lactobacillus delbrueckii, a species indispensable in yogurt, and grew exponentially since the beginning of the 21stcentury thanks to […]
Cancer mutations can be caused by common gut bacteria carried by many people. This was demonstrated by researchers from the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW) and Princess Máxima Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. By exposing cultured human […]
Introduction The microbiome is one of the hottest areas in biotechnology, as countless studies have linked its composition and activity with human disease1,2, especially in illnesses of poorly understood mechanisms, with high medical unmet needs. […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing health care providers and patients of the potential risk of serious or life-threatening infections with the use of fecal microbiota for transplantation (FMT). The agency is now aware […]
Introduction With every article of the Microbiome Times, one sees the therapeutic microbiome industry edging ever-closer to full commercialisation of their products. Understandably, much of the focus has been on the challenging process of demonstrating […]
Many different chronic diseases have been associated with distinct gut microbiome ‘signatures’, but what has proved challenging to date is the translation of the compositional and functional microbiome differences into novel diagnostics and therapeutics. Moving […]
The human microbiome is often described as an ‘ecosystem’, evoking a complex collection of organisms that are alive and dynamic. So when considering strategies for modulating the human microbiome to prevent or treat a disease, […]
First, it was a bank teller who mentioned to me she’d learned about the skin microbiome from a Dove commercial. Then it was a woman whose drink I’d accidentally touched at the Starbucks counter, who […]
The overlap between the gut microbiome and tumor progression, metastasis and treatment sensitivity is one of the fastest growing areas of cancer research1. Recent studies have demonstrated that the microbiome plays important roles in oncogenesis […]
Human microbiome research is one of the most relevant fields of innovation based on the large range of applications known and sectors currently or potentially involved. In fact, the US therapeutics market is meant to […]
This month’s roundup begins with a paper describing what happens when bifidobacteria in the infant gut degrade human milk oligosaccharides; and another about the role of the infant airway microbiota in predicting later-life asthma. Next […]