Gut Microbiota Research & Practice is a section dedicated to promoting knowledge-sharing and debate among researchers, scientists and healthcare professionals. You will find a selection of discussions about articles from scientific literature as well as other content including interviews with experts, event reports, and special publications.
by Andreu Prados
A recent report published by Kelly Servick, a science journalist and staff writer at Science, proposes that laboratory mouse microbiota is an invisible variable that may explain why it is so difficult to reproduce the results of mouse experiments.
by Heather Galipeau
Gluten is highly resistant to digestion by human digestive enzymes; however, digestion of gluten by intestinal bacteria has recently been described.
The Harvard Probiotics Symposium, “Gut health, microbiota & probiotics throughout the lifespan: Metabolic & brain function”, was held on September 15th and 16th at Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA).
The Harvard Probiotics Symposium, “Gut health, microbiota & probiotics throughout the lifespan: Metabolic & brain function”, was held on September 15th and 16th at Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA).
by GMFH Editing Team
Bernd Schnabl is an Associate Professor in Gastroenterology at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, where he investigates precisely the pathogenesis of chronic liver disease. He attended the 5th Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit 2016.
by Andreu Prados
A recent randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial, led by Dr. Ellen Blaak from the Department of Human Biology at Maastricht University Medical Centre in Maastricht (The Netherlands), has found that a 7-day antibiotic treatment does not affect host metabolism in obese humans in the short term, despite profound changes in gut microbial diversity and composition.
by Andreu Prados
A recent study, led by Dr. Oluf Pedersen from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at University of Copenhagen in Denmark, has found that dysbiosis of the human gut microbiota impacts the serum metabolome and contributes to the state of IR and metabolic syndrome.
by Paul Enck
A recent case-control study, led by Dr. Zhenjun Wu from the Department of Blood Transfusion and Clinical Laboratory at Qingdao University School of Medicine in Qingdao (China), has found that probiotics may combat SIBO in patients with gastrointestinal cancer and may alleviate some gastrointestinal symptoms.
by Heather Galipeau
The inaugural Mucosal Immunology Course and Symposium were held in Toronto (Canada) July 27-30, 2016, with specific focus on the microbiota and mucosal immunity in health and disease.
by Andreu Prados
A recent study, led by Dr. Charles Mackay from the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University in Clayton (Australia), has found that the development of food allergies in mice could be linked to dietary elements including fibre and vitamin A.
