Mount Sinai launches Center for Genomic AI and Microbiome Medicine to advance precision medicine
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has launched the Center for Genomic AI and Microbiome Medicine, a research center that will bring together human genetics and microbiome research…
Using AI to harness the gut microbiome for therapies
Which microorganisms live in a person’s gut? How do they affect the body? And how are they connected to the onset and progression of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), such as…
Cohabitating people share about a quarter of their gut and oral microbiota
People who live together share more oral and gut microbes with each other than with other people in their communities, according to a study publishing June 15 in the Cell…
Fungi dwelling on human skin may provide new antibiotics
University of Oregon researchers have uncovered a molecule produced by yeast living on human skin that showed potent antimicrobial properties against a pathogen responsible for a half-million hospitalizations annually in…
CNR, un batterio intestinale contro l’ obesità e il diabete
Tra le centinaia di specie di batteri diverse presenti nell’intestino, Intestinimonas butyriciproducens svolge un ruolo chiave nel migliorare la salute metabolica. Secondo uno studio internazionale a cui ha partecipato l’Istituto…