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We previously demonstrated that commonly used food additives can modify the community of micro-organisms that live in our intestine, and by doing so, boost the...
There is a microscopic society living within us. Many of them reside in our gut. In some colon cancers, toxin-producing bacteria invade the mucus and form a...
Social bacteria growing in microbial communities cheat their resistant neighbors and survive antibiotic treatment. Understanding the social lifestyles of...
Gut bacteria “memory” of previous obesity drives recurrent or “Yo-Yo obesity”: the major pattern of human obesity worldwide. Therapeutically resetting this...
Various factors including “just in case” use of antibiotics can affect the microbiome of babies, and that can sabotage their immune system.
It has been speculated for quite a while whether populations – first of all the human population – can drive themselves to extinction by over-polluting their...
Imagine that a super-computer integrated multitudes of biological data and predicted that a certain 10-way drug combination will have synergy. Traditional...
C. difficile poses a huge threat to human health, but the friendly bacteria of the gut provide us with a natural resistance to infection. By reprogramming...
What constitutes a human body? What is it that makes your body, your own? With our research, we begin to break down the human body to investigate the smallest...
Il est de plus en plus clair que notre microbiote intestinal joue un rôle dans notre bien-être. Un défi majeur pour la médecine moderne, en particulier en ce...
Vous voulez vivre longtemps? La recherche montre qu'il pourrait y avoir un lien entre les microbes présent dans votre intestin (votre microbiote intestinal) et...
Fire salamanders in Europe are threatened by a seemingly relentless pathogen. How will salamanders cope with this aggressive fungus?