From bugs to drugs: How gut microbiota shapes personalised medicine
Representational image. AFP…
Browsing Tag
microbiota
Demonstration of safety of microbiota transplant therapy in stem cell transplant and leukemia…
Published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, University of Minnesota Medical School researchers led a study that demonstrated the safety of using microbiota transplant therapy (MTT) in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) -- a type…
Fecal microbiota transplants: Two reviews explore what’s worked, what hasn’t, and where…
Fecal microbiota transplants are the most effective and affordable treatment for recurrent infections with Clostridioides difficile, an opportunistic bacterium and the most common cause of hospital-acquired intestinal infections. However,…
Chitin from consuming insects can help both gut microbiota and global health
Chitin (kai'tin) and healthy fats from insects appear to contribute to healthy gut microbiota and are strong sources of protein and nutrients, according to a paper co-authored by a Colorado State University researcher and published in…
Capsule delivery of fecal microbiota transplant has similar effectiveness to transplant by…
Recently published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School found that Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) using capsules containing freeze-dried microbes taken orally has…
Understanding how microbiota thrive in their human hosts: Inositol lipid production in gut bacteria…
A research team lead by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, has now made substantial progress in understanding how gut bacteria succeed in their human hosts on a molecular level. They investigated how bacteria…
New method for studying functionality of microbiota
A research group from Turku Bioscience Centre, Finland, has developed a new method for studying the functionality of microbiota through metaproteomics. The new method poses broad potential for the study of microbiota on a new, functional…
Study finds fecal microbiota transplantation to be cost effective treatment for any recurrent…
Research recently published in Clinical Infectious Diseases from the University of Minnesota Medical School has found that Fecal Microbiota Transplantation, or FMT, is an optimal cost-effective treatment for first recurrent Clostridioides…
Antibiotics Affect Gut Microbiota in Children, Finds New Study
Children taking antibiotics have a higher variety of gut fungal microbiota, which persists for 6 weeks after the start of treatment. Gut microbiota is of great importance in health and the immune system.A recent study conducted by…
A single course of antibiotics affects the gut microbiota of infants
A study recently completed at the University of Helsinki revealed that the fungal microbiota in the gut is more abundant and diverse in children treated with antibiotics compared with the control group even six weeks following the start of…