News about the microbiome

Science has already made huge progress in understanding the workings (and failings) of human gut microbiota, but in the past decade, researchers are coming up for air and finding that there is as much to explore right on the surface of our bodies as there is on the inside.

In November 2018, the University of Minnesota published a study on the “westernization” and the loss of immigrant’s innate gut microbiomes.

An article published by BBC just a few days ago confused the probiotic community. Based on a scientific publication from a group of scientists in Israel (Weizman Institute), BBC used the headline Probiotics labelled 'quite useless'. This statement has to be taken with caution …

Scientific Summary Microbiome Discovery and Development Congress June, Berlin. We heard a lot of interesting talks on the status of microbiome development in different research fields which I'd like to summarize for you here. One main topic was the fecal microbiota transplantation …

In May 2017 the Wallen-Russell’s published a review article about the skins microbiome. In this review they summarized publications which are related to skin health and the skins microbiome. They came to the conclusion, that the higher the diversity of the skins microbiome is, the healthier is the skin.

Microbiome science is very fresh and scientists all over the world try to understand how we can manipulate our microbiome in the best way for our health. Something I found very interesting was a totally different approach to the understanding of the microbiome by the Biophysicist Olaf Larsen, ...

Analysis of the microbiome of patients with autoimmune diseases such as MS, type I diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis has shown an altered microbiome in all diseases.