Lawrence and colleagues tracked two subjects' microbiota over a year, collecting 800 fecal and saliva samples associated with 10,000 longitudinal measurements. They first highlighted the evidence for long-term, overall community stability, as differences between individuals were much larger than variation within
Come and meet your bacterial superheroes! A video series to understand gut microbiota
5 Aug 2014by GMFH Editing Team
“It’s IN you, it’s ON you. It’s YOU!” This is the wordplay used to introduce a new four-part video series about human gut microbiota that’s just been released by the Canadian Digestive Health Foundation. This animation project pursues the goal
In an article published online on June 24, 2014 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Zhongyi Chen and Lilu Guo, from the Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, showed that the administration of a modified bacteria expressing therapeutic factors in the gut microbiota could reduce
Exercise and associated dietary habits may boost gut microbiota diversity
22 Jul 2014by GMFH Editing Team
According to a new study recently published in Gut, however, the benefits of exercise may not end there. Researchers suggest that frequent exercise may also play an important role in our whole-body health by – directly or indirectly – contributing to the diversity of our gut microbiota.
Antibiotics in pregnancy may affect the baby’s immune system, mice study shows
16 Jul 2014by GMFH Editing Team
The results of the study, published in Nature Medicine, suggest that the mother’s gut microbiota may play an essential role in this transference as it foster the production of some white blood cells in charge of fighting infections, granulocytes, during the first days of life.
Interview with Prof. Philippe Sansonetti from College de France, Pasteur institute scientist
4 Jul 2014by GMFH Editing Team
Prof. Philippe Sansonetti accepted to give us some feedback about the last international symposium about microbiota held in Collège de France. He invited us to focus about the host microbiome symbiosis using complementary approach to correlative metagenomics studies. Pr
Síndrome del intestino irritable: cuando la microbiota intestinal se desequilibra
1 Jul 2014by GMFH Editing Team
Uno de los principales trastornos funcionales que puede ser causado por una flora intestinal desequilibrada es el Síndrome del intestino irritable (SII), que llega a afectar hasta a dos de cada diez personas en los países occidentales. Se calcula que este
Following our Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit 2014 video series, Prof. Ted Dinan from the Department of Psychiatry at the University College Cork, Ireland, here enlightens us about the gut brain axis issue related to gut microbiota. The #GMFH2014 took
A group of scientists at the University of Chicago has found evidence of this seasonal shift in the gut flora, by studying the remote Hutterite population, in North America.
Following our Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit 2014 video series, Prof. D. Brent Polk from the Department of Pediatrics and Vice-Dean for Child Health Keck School of Medicine of the University of South California, USA, here enlightens us about pediatric
