The more than 100 trillion microbes we host - the human microbiota - can identify us as individuals much like a fingerprint, a new study by Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health reveals.
Are we targeting the wrong bugs? Review of Missing Microbes, a book by Dr. Martin Blaser
17 Jun 2015by GMFH Editing Team
In the book Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues, Dr. Martin Blaser of New York University challenges the assumption that antibiotics are without harm.
Could gut microbiota help early-stage detection of colorectal cancer?
24 Feb 2015by GMFH Editing Team
Now, a team of researchers may have discovered a new, potentially non-invasive screening tool based on individuals’ gut microbiota, which could be used as a complement to colonoscopies and other screening tests.
The American Microbiome Institute, a new public and non-profit institution focused on gut microbiota research and education
10 Dec 2014by GMFH Editing Team
Companies, academic institutions, foundations and hospitals are invited to collaborate in this field, under the coordination of the American Microbiome Institute (AMI).
Scientists have recently become more aware of the important role the hundreds of trillions of gut microbes play in keeping us healthy.
MyNewGut, a new European project to study in-depth the role of gut microbiota
19 Aug 2014by GMFH Editing Team
A new multidisciplinary project called MyNewGut, funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme, has been recently launched. It is a five-year research initiative to enable basic scientific findings in the field of the gut microbiota.
The latest scientific studies about the microbiota on the Futurity portal
9 Apr 2014by GMFH Editing Team
Futurity is a scientific news portal supported by a consortium of some of the United States’ most prestigious universities.
As we explained in one of the first posts on this blog, the American National Institutesof Health (NIH) launched a five-year initiative in 2008 aimed at studying the ins and outs of the human microbiome to “characterize microbial communities found
The American Gastroenterological Association creates its Gut Microbiome Research and Education Center
17 Apr 2013by GMFH Editing Team
As it has been mentioned since the beginning of our blog, gut microbiota is increasingly raising more interest both from experts and society as a whole. Although some projects have been completed, there are others on the way. The good
Great projects such as Human Microbiome Project and MetaHIT have arrived to the end in the last two years, but it doesn’t mean research on gut microbiota stops. A second generation of studies has started, evidencing the relevance of this