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.
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).
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.
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
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
Introducing the Human Microbiome Project, the largest microbial map ever made
17 Oct 2012by GMFH Editing Team
Did you know that we can find more than 100 trillion of good bacteria in our body? According to a study carried out by more than 80 universities and 200 researchers, humans are made up of more microbes than human