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• Caesarean section delivery may double risk of childhood obesity: May be due to different gut bacteria

  
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  Caesarean section delivery has already been linked to an increased risk of subsequent childhood asthma and allergic rhinitis, and around one in three babies born in the US is delivered this way. pub-5799224524264318
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• Why More Parasite Diversity is Good News for Frogs

  
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  Flukes that parasitize amphibians The enemy of my enemy is my friend—especially if I’m a frog and my enemies are competing parasites. A recent study in PNAS found that frogs populations exposed to a more diverse set of flukes actually had lower rates of infection, with fewer frogs in the group afflicted ...
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• Explore the Human Microbiome

  
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  The body contains 10 times more bacteria, fungi and other micro-organisms than human cells. Most of these species are harmless—although they can still cause illness if they wind up in the wrong place. In addition, researchers are beginning to learn exactly how some microbial species in the body help digestion and ...
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• Prof Trevor Marshall - Video: How Microbes cause Chronic Disease on Vimeo

  
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  Prof. Trevor Marshall addressed the issue of biological complexity in his presentation at the 5th Asian Congress on Autoimmunity, in Singapore, on 19 November 2011. He explored how the Human Microbiome leads to a semi-infinite Interactome, and how the combined metagenomes from the microbes living in and on the ...
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• The Sea We’ve Hardly Seen

  
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  I am admittedly a huge invertebrate nerd. But there’s a lot more going on in the ocean than can be caught with a plankton net. For this week’s TGIF, check out super awesome Scripps alumna and MIT post-doc Melissa Garren on the glory and the mystery oceanic microbes. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action ...
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• Microbiology at Sea: A tale of ballast, vomit, and cockroaches

  
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  California has been a big transition for me. I mean big. Not only am I now living in the sun-drenched utopia I have long pined for (a climate which finally meets my minimum temperature preference of 90F), but I also have leaped into to an entirely new scientific world. I think I’m becoming a microbiologist. . . . ...
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• In Infants, Gut Flora Affects Maturation Of B Cells

  
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  Infants whose gut is colonised by E. coli bacteria early in life have a higher number of memory B cells in their blood, reveals a study of infants carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The bacteria in our gut outnumber the cells in our bodies by a factor of ten and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Do Gut Microbes Travel From Person to Person?

  
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  It’s an exciting time for ecologists who study microbes. DNA sequencing has grown so cheap and fast that they can run around identifying bacteria living just about anywhere they can reach with a cotton swab. Turns out, bacteria are everywhere, even in the cleanest houses, and scientists are starting to wonder: do ...
  3 weeks ago

• Armpits, belly buttons and chronic wounds: The ABCs of our body bacteria

  
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  Minutes after you were born, bacteria moved in. Since then, their populations have exploded, diversified and spread -- on your skin and eyes and in your mouth and gut, not to mention other places. These bacterial cells now far outnumber your own cells. pub-5799224524264318
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• Breastfeeding changes gene expression in babies: healthy guts and healthy immunity

  
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  New mothers have long been told that breast is best for their babies, and new research published in Genome Biology adds to the evidence. The researchers looked at the gut microbiome and found that breastfeeding changed the way that the babies expressed immune system genes.
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• Breastfeeding linked to healthy infant gut: Bacterial colonization leads to changes in the infant’s expression of genes

  
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  Early colonization of the gut by microbes in infants is critical for development of their intestinal tract and in immune development. A new study, published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Genome Biology , shows that differences in bacterial colonization of formula-fed and breast-fed babies leads to ...
  4 weeks ago

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