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Obesity surgery leads to emergence of new microbial strains in the human fecal community
Using a unique bioinformatics technique developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, UAB researchers have detected the emergence of new strains of microbes in the human fecal microbiota after obesity surgery. These new strains emerged after surgical disruption of… Read More ›
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Antidepressant foods: An evidence-based nutrient profiling system for depression
Antidepressant foods: An evidence-based nutrient profiling system for depression The objective of this study is to determine which foods are the most nutrient dense sources of nutrients demonstrated by human studies published in the current scientific literature to play a… Read More ›
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Human mortality ‘plateau’ may be statistical error, not hint of immortality
Human error, not human biology, largely accounts for the apparent decline of mortality among the very old, according to a new report publishing on Dec. 20, 2018, in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Saul Newman of Australia National University… Read More ›
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Yale Cancer Center scientists advise caution in immunotherapy research
In a new study, Yale Cancer Center (YCC) scientists suggest that as the number of clinical trials in cancer immunotherapy grows exponentially, some caution should be exercised as we continue to better understand the biology of these new therapeutic targets…. Read More ›
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Threat of ‘nightmare bacteria’ exhibiting resistance to last-resort antibiotic colistin
Researchers examined the dissemination of colistin-resistant bacteria among residents of rural communities in Vietnam to find that the prevalence of colistin-resistant Escherichia coli in the intestines was extremely high, at about 70 percent. It was revealed that the prevalence of… Read More ›
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Nitrate Rich foods may prevent Fatty Liver Disease
Nitrate Rich foods may prevent Fatty Liver Disease “When we supplemented with dietary nitrate to mice fed with a high-fat and sugar Western diet, we noticed a significantly lower proportion of fat in the liver,” says Mattias Carlström, Associate Professor… Read More ›
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An ancient strain of plague may have led to the decline of Neolithic Europeans
A team of researchers from France, Sweden, and Denmark have identified a new strain of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes plague, in DNA extracted from 5,000-year-old human remains. Their analyses, publishing Dec. 6 in the journal Cell, suggest that… Read More ›
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Essential oils from garlic and other herbs kill ‘persister’ Lyme disease bacteria
Essential oils from garlic and other herbs kill ‘persister’ Lyme disease bacteria “We found that these essential oils were even better at killing the ‘persister’ forms of Lyme bacteria than standard Lyme antibiotics,” says study senior author Ying Zhang, MD,… Read More ›
