Crowd-Sourcing Drug Discovery
“The first challenge that OSDD’s cyber-community assigned itself was to glean more information from the M. tuberculosis genome. It was sequenced in ...
Tag: medicine
Friendly bacteria move in mysterious ways : Nature News
“Many yoghurts are loaded with live bacteria, and labelled with claims that consuming these microorganisms can be good for your health. But a study publis...
Probiotic-prebiotic combination may ease eczema in kids: Study
“Supplements containing a combination of Lactobacillus salivarius and fructo-oligosaccharide for eight weeks were associated with significant reductions i...
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...
Health benefits and health claims of probiotics: bridging science and marketing – BJN
“Health claims for probiotics are evaluated by the Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies of the European Food Safety Authority. Despite a su...
Ecology drives a global network of gene exchange connecting the human microbiome : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
“Horizontal gene transfer — the exchange of genetic material between different species or lineages — is an important factor in bacterial evolution. A stud...
Vampire-like Predatory Bacteria Could Become A Living Antibiotic : Discover Magazine
“What’s the news: If bacteria had blood, the predatory microbe Micavibrio aeruginosavorus would essentially be a vampire: it subsists by hunting down othe...
Host response: Probiotic ingestion alters mood : Nature Reviews Microbiology
“There is growing evidence that the intestinal microbiota interacts with the host central nervous system (CNS) to modify stress responses and anxiety beha...
PLoS ONE: Barcoded Pyrosequencing Reveals That Consumption of Galactooligosaccharides Results in a Highly Specific Bifidogenic Response in Humans
“Prebiotics are selectively fermented ingredients that allow specific changes in the gastrointestinal microbiota that confer health benefits to the host. ...
Rediscovering Bits of 1890s
“”Laurie Cox, a graduate student who works in the lab, held up the test tube with the 100-year-old bacterium. She explained that they can determine ...