microbiota

Collateral damage: antibiotics disrupt the balance in the gut

Cold adaptation: gut bacteria can make the difference

Invisible allies for healthy juvenile growth

The cutting EDGE: Bringing genomics to everyone

The daily life of Neandertals

The picture of the Neandertals as a complex, intelligent group is growing ever clearer. How was their daily life?

Studies of the bugs within: telling sickness from cure

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...

Killing C. difficile with targeted strikes

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...

Absent microbial teachers and immunological hooliganism

Various factors including “just in case” use of antibiotics can affect the microbiome of babies, and that can sabotage their immune system.

Gut bacteria drive yo-yo dieting

Gut bacteria “memory” of previous obesity drives recurrent or “Yo-Yo obesity”: the major pattern of human obesity worldwide. Therapeutically resetting this...

Could our gut’s microbes be the guardians of our brain’s health?

Microorganisms inhabiting our gut degrade certain nutrients into molecules capable of activating brain-resident immune cells to control inflammation. This...

Bacteria under stress: cheating to survive

Social bacteria growing in microbial communities cheat their resistant neighbors and survive antibiotic treatment. Understanding the social lifestyles of...

Drive out the “bad bugs” to prevent colon cancers

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...