“A new study led by researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, MIT, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has shown that antibiotics can also reduce […]
Category: Microbiota
Diet-Microbiota Interactions Mediate Global Epigenetic Programming in Multiple Host Tissue
“Gut microbiota alter host histone acetylation and methylation in multiple tissues• Western diet suppresses microbiota-driven SCFA production and chromatin effects• SCFAs recapitulate microbiota-driven chromatin and transcriptional effects”
Engineering the gut microbiome with ‘good’ bacteria may help treat Crohn’s disease
“Researchers have singled out a bacterial enzyme behind an imbalance in the gut microbiome linked to Crohn’s disease. The new study suggests that wiping out a significant portion of the […]
Landmark editorial identifies microbes as major cause of Alzheimer’s Disease
“A worldwide team of senior scientists and clinicians have come together to produce an editorial which indicates that certain microbes – a specific virus and two specific types of bacteria […]
A microbial metabolite mediates protection against influenza infection
A recent study, led by Dr. Thaddeus Stappenbeck from the Department of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, USA), has found that a particular gut […]
How the microbiome is linked to autoimmune disorders
“We found that a protein expressed by gut bacteria called Bacteroides works to prevent IBD by rapidly recruiting white blood cells to kill a cell of the immune system that […]
Gut bacteria found to trigger gene that protects against type 1 diabetes
“Researchers have discovered that a powerful guardian gene known to protect against a variety of autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes, is triggered by the bacteria in our gut. This […]
Sugars in human mother’s milk are non-toxic antibacterial agents
“an interdisciplinary team of chemists and doctors at Vanderbilt University have discovered that some of the carbohydrates in human milk not only possess antibacterial properties of their own but also […]
Human Gut-Derived Commensal Bacteria Suppress CNS Inflammatory and Demyelinating Disease
“Our study provides evidence that the administration of gut commensals may regulate a systemic immune response and may, therefore, have a possible role in treatment strategies for MS.”
Toddler brain development: Bacterial clues found in dirty baby diapers
“researchers in the lab of Rebecca Knickmeyer, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, found an association between certain kinds of microbial communities and higher levels of cognitive development later on.”