The vertebrate gastrointestinal tract harbours a complex and dynamic community of microorganisms that engage in intricate interactions with the host. These associations range from mutualistic ...
The human intestine is colonised by a vast and diverse community of microorganisms whose collective activities are essential to digestion, barrier integrity and immune homeostasis. Commensal bacteria ...
Synthetic microbial communities give researchers controlled models for testing how diet reshapes gut microbial ecology, ...
The microbiome comprises a multitude of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism. The interactions of body cells and the microbiome form a structural and often ...
Postdoctoral researcher Abhilash Nair at Columbia University studies how diet-induced changes shape gut microbiota dynamics ...
A study published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe by Brazilian and American researchers suggests that a diet rich in soluble fiber can protect the intestine against pathogenic bacteria. The ...
Live biotherapeutics represent an emerging frontier in microbiotechnology, offering novel approaches to treat and prevent ...
Researchers have long suspected that the gut microbiome—the community of bacteria and other microorganisms living in the ...
About six years ago, Srivatsan Raman, a biochemist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his team took a trip to NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Standing a mile away from the ...