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Our tongue is inhabited by billions of microbes. But are they beneficial for us? A new imaging technique reveals that these microbes build organized...
Due to the increase in antimicrobial resistance in pathogens, currently used antibiotics are becoming ineffective. Thus, new antibiotics need to be discovered....
Reducing the number of calories eaten every day has many positive effects on health. In our research, we have shown that in mice, some of the effects of...
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...
Microorganisms inhabiting our gut degrade certain nutrients into molecules capable of activating brain-resident immune cells to control inflammation. This...
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.
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...
Gut microbiota, the bacterial communities that live inside our bodies, more and more appear to be related to our well-being. A major challenge for modern...
The picture of the Neandertals as a complex, intelligent group is growing ever clearer. How was their daily life?
