Saturday morning thoughts on the evolutionary history of IBD in Eastern European Jews
Of course, as is usual with me on the weekend, I started reading all my open tabs in my browser. And the first one I read was a paper where they crossed two pur...
Tag: gut
Another article on “Patterns of Early Gut Colonization Shape Future Immune Responses of the Host” in PLoS ONE
“In conclusion, a time window exists that enables the artificial colonization of GF mice by a single oral dose of caecal content, which may modify the fut...
Gut microbes and immunity: The hygiene hypothesis, peak antibiotics, and the post-Pasteurian Age
“Exposure to microbes during early childhood is associated with protection from immune-mediated diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and asth...
The Impact of a Consortium of Fermented Milk Strains on the Gut Microbiome of Gnotobiotic Mice and Monozygotic Twins
“The results also showed that (i) consumption of an FMP containing five bacterial strains was not associated with a statistically significant change in th...
A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing : Nature
“Beyond providing the global view of the human gut microbiome, the extensive gene catalogue we have established enables future studies of association of t...
Influence of Milk-Feeding Type and Genetic Risk of Developing Coeliac Disease on Intestinal Microbiota of Infants: The PROFICEL Study
“This study demonstrates that the milk-feeding type and the HLA-DQ genotype differently influence the bacterial colonization pattern of the newborn intest...
PLoS Biology: How Bacteria Turn Fiber into Food
“Now, a new study by Eric Martens, David Bolam, and colleagues has looked into how a pair of the most common species of gut bacteria metabolize polysaccha...
Trend: Probiotics, and a commentary
When I lived in the US in the 90s, it was hard to find live-culture yogurt in supermarkets (you could find them in natural food stores, of course). The only one...
Fortify your poop – Transfaunation
As you know, I’m always looking for practical uses of microbes. One that I stumbled upon a long while back was “transfaunation”, or, seeding o...
Viral infection: The gut microbiota: friend or foe? : Nature Reviews Microbiology
“We normally think of the gut microbiota as the ‘friendly’ bacteria that carry out many beneficial functions, including protecting us from inf...