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Tomas de Wouters on #GMFH2014 and the FMT workshop

7 May 2014

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Dr. Tomas de Wouters covered #GMFH2014 the Gut Microbiota for Health Summit which took place from March 8th to March 9th, 2014 in Miami. We have asked him his feedback on the event. You can follow Tomas here on GMFHx.com and on Twitter @tdewouters.

“I want to confess something, I am more microbial than I am human”, said Professor Jeffrey Gordon as he began his talk on TEDxGatewayArch, in which the expert from Washington University in St. Louis (USA) discussed the relationship between the

Probiotics may lead to weight loss in obese women

23 Apr 2014

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A range of studies have shown that the microbiota of obese individuals is quite different to that of people with no weight problems. Now, a study led by researchers from the Université Laval in Canada and Nestlé, has taken things

Take a computational care of gut metagenomics data

22 Apr 2014

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Joseph Nathaniel Paulson (@dorageh) and Paul Igor Costea (@CosteaPaul) are both mathematical and computer scientists. Their studies focus on processing large metagenomic data, specifically with gut microbiota and health in mind. They have corresponded recently through articles about normalization methods

Metagenomics helps to assess the gut resistome

16 Apr 2014

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Elena Buelow published under Willem van Schaik's supervision her work about the monitoring of patients in intensive care units to assess the selective digestive decontamination using a metagenomics approach. She accepted to give us highlights of her study which give

Small intestine microbiota and big omics challenges

31 Mar 2014

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Dr Tom van den Bogert focused his research on small intestinal microbiota combining cutting edge omics method like metagenomics. He accepted to give us more detailed information about his work conducted in TIFN framework. We advise our readers to follow him on

As this enlightening video published by Huffington Post journalist Jacqueline Howard shows, we are walking ecosystems, as our bodies are colonised from top to bottom by microbes that, not happy with behaving like guests, are actually integrated into our biology.

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