Probiotics

Could probiotics each day keep antibiotic prescriptions at bay?

Guest Post: Taxonomic changes are ‘timely opportunity’ to turn probiotic strains into household names

Gut Microbiota Clinical Minute: Can probiotics prevent Clostridium difficile infection?

ISAPP’s 2019 annual meeting in Antwerp, Belgium: Directions in probiotic & prebiotic innovation

Key points for health care providers about probiotic safety and quality standards

Learning what happens between a probiotic input and a health output

Probiotics Part I: A branching definition

Probiotics Part II: In Sickness and in Health

The past decade of probiotics and prebiotics research: ISAPP board members share their perspectives

Your guide to the difference between fermented foods and probiotics

Digestive disorders

IBS: Not just a grumpy gut

In new understandings of IBS, diet and probiotics emerging as promising treatments

Interview with Dr. Brent Polk, on inflammatory bowel disease in childhood

Newfound Mechanisms of Intestinal Fibrosis Could Lead to Prevention Strategies

Studying how the low-FODMAP diet reduces symptoms in Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Success for Children with IBD: Tackle nutrition and digestion to help kids live their best lives

Early life

Clinical implications of recent study exploring ‘microbial restoration procedure’ for caesarean-born infants

Improving Infant Health Through the Microbiome

Study shows “just in case” antibiotics in late pregnancy may have health consequences for offspring

Why Kids Should Get Their Daily Dose of Germs

Fermented foods

Gut Microbiota Clinical Minute: Do fermented foods contribute to health?

Highlighting the importance of lactic acid bacteria: An interview with Prof. Seppo Salminen

Food allergy

Scientists explore the causal role of gut microbiota in food allergy

Gut-brain axis

Connecting the Dots between Digestion and Emotion: Book Review of Emeran Mayer’s The Mind-Gut Connection

Go With Your Gut to Cut the Cravings

Know your serotonin: An interview with gut-brain axis researcher Elaine Hsiao

Mechanisms By Which Probiotics Act On The Human Brain Still Elude Us, But We’re Getting Closer

Nourishing the “Second Brain” in Your Gut

Of Two Minds: Antibiotics And The Gut-Brain Axis

“Psychobiotics” And The Science Of How Gut Bacteria Can Affect The Human Brain

Psychobiotics, gut biomarkers, and the future of mental health

Scientists investigate the ‘black box’ of bacterial effects on the brain and behaviour

Why You Can’t Blame Your Behavior On Your Gut Microbiome

Gut health

Adventures of a Good Gut: How to take care of your digestion on your escape

Help for Holiday Overindulgence: Support your gut micro-organisms

In One End, Out the Other: The lowdown on bowel health

The science on gut microbiota and intestinal gas: Everything you wanted to know but didn’t want to ask

Prebiotics

Implications of the new consensus definition of prebiotics

Scientists reach consensus on the meaning of the word “prebiotic”

Asthma

Finding early-life microbiota markers of asthma risk

Cancer

Hepatitis B and the liver cancer endgame

Celiac disease

Studying how gluten reacts with bacteria in the gut helps advance treatments for celiac disease

Diet

Do the microRNAs we eat affect gene expression?


Gut microbiome

Evolving with the help of our gut microbes

Gut Microbiota From Cradle To Grave: Does Age Or Lifestyle Matter More?

The Top Five Mysteries of the Human Gut Microbiome

Health

3 Things Microbes in Space Can Teach Us About Our Health on Earth

Immune system

Building a resilient immune system: Interview with Prof. Philip Calder (Part 1)

The links between diet and immunity: Interview with Prof. Philip Calder (Part 2)

Infection

Preparing health-care systems for future pandemics

The art of infection prevention

With Infections, We’ve Been Playing ‘Pin the Blame on the Microbe.’ Is It Time to Change the Game?

Microbiome research & bioinformatics

Dr. Georg Gerber on the computational approaches that will enable new microbiome diagnostics and therapeutics

Modelling Holobiont Evolution for a Better Understanding of Symbiosis, Dysbiosis, and Human Health

Why microbiome science needs to incorporate ecological perspectives – and five steps for making it happen

Microbiome therapeutics

Group examines the unique challenges of clinical trials for development of microbiotic medicinal products, including live biotherapeutic products

Ferring takes pre-emptive action in IP dispute with Finch

Non-living microbiome therapeutics: European organisation strives to bring regulatory challenges for these drug products into focus

Stakeholders in microbiome-based therapeutic development convene to address the lack of clarity and standards for OMICS data

Nutrition

Feeding the Masses: Microbes provide new reasons to love your fibre

Gut Microbes Could Finally Settle the Debate Over Whether Red Meat Is Unhealthy

Nutrition for Seniors: A quality diet for optimal health

The future of nutrition is personalized, and gut microbiota will help us get there

Obesity & metabolic health

A Gut Feeling about Body Weight

Inflammation, gut microbiota, and obesity: What’s the link?

What’s the science on resistant starch for weight loss? An interview with Dr. Laure Bindels

Oral microbiome

Lessons from the ancient oral microbiome

Oral microbiome findings challenge dentistry dogma