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Do bacteria control our appetite?

Our gut microbial community is not as stable as one might think. Our diet has a big impact on the type and amount of bacteria we have in our gut. Every time we eat, we are not only satisfying our nutritional needs, but we are... click to read more

Ilana Gabanyi | Postdoctoral Fellow at Institut Pasteur

bacteria

gut microbiota

Peptides

Appetite

Gut-Brain Interaction

Signalling

Reading time 4 min

published on Jan 30, 2023

Gut microbes transform the food and the drugs we ingest

Microbes in the human gut play essential roles in maintaining human health. Gut microbes carry out many of these roles using a large toolkit of enzymes that can metabolize and transform larger, complex compounds into smaller compounds. Microbial enzymes breakdown many compounds from the human... click to read more

Leah Guthrie | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, United States; Stanford University, Stanford, United States

metabolism

gut microbiota

chemical similarity

toxicity

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Jan 30, 2020