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New compound shown to be as effective as FDA-approved drugs against life-threatening infections; tests indicate it is less susceptible to resistance
Purdue University researchers have identified a new compound that in preliminary testing has shown itself to be as effective as antibiotics approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat life-threatening infections while also appearing to be less susceptible to bacterial resistance.
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Gut microbe movements regulate host circadian rhythms
Even gut microbes have a routine. Like clockwork, they start their day in one part of the intestinal lining, move a few micrometers to the left, maybe the right, and then return to their original position. New research in mice now reveals that the regular timing of these small movements can influence a host animal's circadian rhythms by exposing gut tissue to different microbes and their metabolites as the day goes by. Disruption of this dance can affect the host. The study appears December 1 in Cell.
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Faecal transplants could help preserve vulnerable species
New gut bacteria can expand the diet of animals like koalas and rhinoceroses.
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Under certain conditions, bacterial signals set the stage for leukemia
A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine shows that bacterial signals are crucial to the development of a precursor condition to leukemia, which can be induced by disrupting the intestinal barrier or by introducing a bacterial infection.
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Chimpanzees have much cleaner beds than humans do, scientists find
Chimpanzees have much cleaner beds - with fewer bodily bacteria - than humans do, scientists have found. A study comparing swabs taken from chimp nests with those from human beds found that people's sheets and mattresses harboured far more bacteria from their bodies than the animals' beds did from theirs. The researchers say their findings suggest that our attempts to create clean environments for ourselves may actually make our surroundings “less ideal”.
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The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth – The Bacteriophage
A war has been raging for billions of years, killing trillions every single day, while we don’t even notice. This war involves the single deadliest being on our planet: The Bacteriophage.
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Can microbes manipulate our minds?
Researchers at the University of Oxford have proposed an evolutionary framework to understand why microbes living in the gut affect the brain and behaviour, published in Nature Reviews Microbiology.
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How bacteria are changing your mood
If anything makes us human it's our minds, thoughts and emotions. And yet a controversial new concept is emerging that claims gut bacteria are an invisible hand altering our brains. Science is piecing together how the trillions of microbes that live on and in all of us - our microbiome - affect our physical health. But even conditions including depression, autism and neurodegenerative disease are now being linked to these tiny creatures.
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Postinfectious Irritable Bowel Syndrome After a Food-Borne Outbreak of Acute Gastroenteritis Attributed to a Viral Pathogen
There was an outbreak of food poisoning at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Gastroenterology. A subsequent study indicated that most patients recovered by 3 months, 3% of them had continued symptoms consistent with PI-IBS.
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Wide range of drugs affect growth of gut microbes, study says
A wide range of drugs from cancer therapies to antipsychotics affect the growth of microbes that are found in our gut, researchers say, highlighting that it is not only antibiotics that can have an impact on our internal flora. These microbes, whose genes taken together are known as the gut microbiome, play an important role in our health, including for our immune system and our digestion, and have been linked to a host of diseases such as autoimmune conditions, obesity and mood disorders.
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Antibiotic use tied to Crohn's, ulcerative colitis
People who are prescribed a large number of antibiotics tend to have a higher risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a new study finds, providing more evidence that antibiotics may be disturbing bacteria in our intestine.
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Antibacterial Ingredient Can Really Quickly Mess With Gut Bacteria, Study Finds
Antibacterial products came into our lives to make everything more hygienic, but evidence has been mounting over the past few years that suggests they might be doing more harm than good.
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How to Prevent Gut Inflammation
If you think about it, there has to be a way for our good bacteria to signal to our immune system that they’re the good guys. There is. And that signal is butyrate. Researchers found that butyrate suppresses the inflammatory reaction and tells our immune system to stand down
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A Dietary Fiber-Deprived Gut Microbiota Degrades the Colonic Mucus Barrier
The diet of industrialized nations has experienced a decrease in fiber intake, which for many is now well below the recommended daily range of 28−35 g for adults, and this deficit has been linked to several diseases
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Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's: Is 21st century living to blame?
It is not clear why some people develop inflammatory bowel disorders and some don't. Research now shows that our lifestyle plays a significant part.
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The microbiome and big data
Analysis of large microbial datasets contributes critical information for health care, epidemiology, agriculture, and biofuels.
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