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Shaping your metabolism – gut microbiota and the endocannabinoidome
October 11, 2022
With the ultimate goal of finding ways to address obesity in humans, Dr. Cristoforo Silvestri is investigating and testing promising compounds that work through the gut microbiota-endocannabinoidome axis.
How hibernation and pesticides disturb the bee gut microbiome
August 30, 2022
Without bees on planet Earth, our human population would be in serious trouble. Since bees perform 80% of the global agricultural pollination, in their absence we would lack the pollination of most flowers, fruit and vegetables...
Liana's blog will give you a deep insight into her microbiology research and life as a traveling scientist, so you feel inspired to start your own adventures.
Set up for life: How breastfeeding benefits preterm infants
February 22, 2022
Discover the vital role that breast milk can play in reducing preterm infant mortality caused by NEC and other gut disease. See QIAGEN products that can help infant gut microbiome research.
Getting ahead of the next outbreak: the predictive power of wastewater monitoring
July 27, 2021
When dealing with a global pandemic such as COVID-19, every day counts. To better respond to a local surge in infections, early detection is of vital importance.
Meet the creators of Gut Check, the popular microbiome board game A gut instinct for gaming – how David Coil made microbes fun for all
February 16, 2021
At this very moment, a fierce competition is playing out in the dark recesses of your intestines. Invisibly, of course. But if you open up the board game Gut Check, all will be revealed. Laid out before you is a collection of beneficial microbes, opportunistic microbes and pathogens, intermingling and cancelling each other’s effects. The result: a dramatic battle to improve or harm your health.
How the microbiome influences mosquito populations
November 7, 2020
Around the world, the microorganisms that cause some of our most deadly – and therefore feared – diseases are borne by mosquitoes. The Aedes genus of mosquitoes are known to spread Dengue Fever, Yellow Fever, Chikungunya and Zika viruses.
From the human gut to varied environments such as Antarctic soil, ocean water, or acidic hot spring biofilms, microbiome can be found in diverse conditions. Regardless of the origin of the sample, microbiome researchers require high yields and unbiased results to analyze microbial communities.
Leveraging the microbiome to improve pregnancy outcomes in African American communities
August 06, 2020
Expectant mothers have a lot of things to consider when trying to keep themselves and their pregnancies healthy. With stress, food and environmental factors already being considered as influences on her overall health and wellbeing...
Improving cattle feed efficiency for sustainable beef production and increased food availability
April 1, 2020
Intensively-farmed livestock is a high-cost industry with global implications1. With our high dependency on meat for our proteins, feeding the world is an ever-growing challenge. According to...
As a part of our microbiome research interview series, we spoke with Ms. Celia Diez Lopez, a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Genetic Identification, Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Ms. Diez Lopez is conducting...
Summer is here in the northern hemisphere and tick season is upon us. While for many, this comes with no small amount of concern for tick-borne diseases, for Paula Lado tick season means...
Chew on this: Historic “gum” records DNA from human ancestors in Scandinavia
July 10, 2019
When telling you to throw out your gum, neither you nor your grade-school teachers ever expected research like this. In the quest to find ancient DNA left by our ancestors, a group of researchers analyzed mastics found at a Mesolithic site...
Cracking the microbiome-cancer connection: Meet Wadie D. Mahauad-Fernandez, PhD, postdoctoral oncological research fellow
June 20, 2019
The cutting edge of cancer research is finding connections between tumor growth and the composition of gut microbiomes. Wadie D. Mahauad-Fernandez, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral oncology fellow at Stanford University, in Stanford, Calif.
Best practices for fecal handling and storage before nucleic acid isolation
June 9, 2019
Getting biodiversity data from fecal samples is tricky. How materials are handled and stored can mean the difference between accurately pinpointing diverse and delicate gut flora and getting woefully unclear sequencing data...
A whole world in an apple: Meet Dr. Susan Whitehead, assistant professor of Biological Science at Virginia Tech
May 29, 2019
For new assistant professor Susan Whitehead, Ph.D., from Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, V.A., the outdoors has always held her interest. A simple summer project, however, encouraged her to turn her gaze further into the microbiome...
Exploring the intersection of cancer and the microbiome: Meeting Jie (Angela) Chen, MD, emerging microbiome researcher
May 6, 2019
When emerging science, personal curiosity and strong desire to help others collide, a research physician must heed the call. Such is the case with Jie (Angela) Chen, MD, PhD student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Balancing behavior and the microbiome: Meet Els van der Goot
April 15, 2019
Els van der Goot, PhD student from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, is building connections, bridging the gaps in knowledge between behavior, biology and the microbiome.
Meet a microbiome researcher: Q&A with Dr. Erika Ganda
August 21, 2018
As a part of our Microbiome research interview series, we spoke with Dr. Erika Ganda from the department of Food Science, Cornell University, New York. Erika is a microbiome researcher with a background in veterinary medicine, epidemiology...
New advances in microbial community profiling: A future without bias
June 12, 2018
The foundation for the study of microbial communities are multiplex PCR and 16S and 18S rRNA gene sequencing analysis1. Using high throughput sequencing in the analysis of microbial communities has led to the new scientific field...
Meet a microbiome researcher: Q&A with Dr. Aaron Ericsson
April 20, 2018
As a part of our Microbiome research interview series, we spoke with Dr. Aaron Ericsson. He is Director of the University of Missouri Metagenomics Center and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology at the...
Meet a microbiome researcher: Q&A with Dr. Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe
February 19, 2018
As a part of our Microbiome research interview series, we spoke with Dr. Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Arrieta lab, departments of Physiology & Pharmacology, and Pediatrics...
