microbiota

Microbial life on our tongue

Our tongue is inhabited by billions of microbes. But are they beneficial for us? A new imaging technique reveals that these microbes build organized...

The daily life of Neandertals

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

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...

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...

Invisible allies for healthy juvenile growth

The cutting EDGE: Bringing genomics to everyone

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.

Cold adaptation: gut bacteria can make the difference

Collateral damage: antibiotics disrupt the balance in the gut

Modern stressors of gut microbes

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...

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...

Insect microbiomes – a new hope against antimicrobial resistance?

Due to the increase in antimicrobial resistance in pathogens, currently used antibiotics are becoming ineffective. Thus, new antibiotics need to be discovered....