Cheese has always felt like a bit of alchemy: milk, a handful of cultures, patience, and suddenly you have something with texture, aroma, and a personality of its own. A new study from the University of Reading, published in ACS... Continue Reading →
Gut bacteria need to eat, and if you don't feed them, they'll find something else to feed on, including you. Two new studies from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research's Princeton branch, led by Jenna AbuSalim and Joshua Rabinowitz, dig... Continue Reading →
What does rapid long-distance travel actually do to the body's internal clock and gut bacteria, and can any of it be managed? Two clocks, one disruptionThe body runs on a central circadian clock in the brain's suprachiasmatic nucleus, which is... Continue Reading →
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. Still incurable, it directly affects nearly one million people in Europe, and indirectly millions of family members as well as society as a whole. In recent years, the scientific community has... Continue Reading →
Eating extra servings typically shows up on the scale later, but how this happens has not been clear. A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation by a multi-institutional team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reveals a... Continue Reading →
A study of newborn infants has identified a compound produced by gut bacteria that appears to predispose certain infants to allergies and asthma later in life. “We have discovered a specific bacterial lipid in the neonatal gut that promotes immune dysfunction... Continue Reading →
A new study identifies the species of bacteria in the human infant gut that protect against food allergies, finding changes associated with the development of food allergies and an altered immune response. Every three minutes, a food-related allergic reaction sends... Continue Reading →
The first time Vayu Maini Rekdal manipulated microbes, he made a decent sourdough bread. At the time, young Maini Rekdal, and most people who head to the kitchen to whip up a salad dressing, pop popcorn, ferment vegetables, or caramelize... Continue Reading →
Research in mice suggests that fermentation of flaxseed fibers in the gut changes the microbiota to improve metabolic health and protect against diet-induced obesity. The study, published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology--Endocrinology and Metabolism, was chosen as an APSselect article... Continue Reading →