Tag: Microbiome
Gut microbes help hibernating ground squirrels emerge strong and healthy in...
Hannah V. Carey, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Matthew Regan, Université de Montréal
Ground squirrels spend the end of summer...
In mice, a mother’s love comes from the gut
Bill Sullivan, Indiana University
There is perhaps nothing more heartbreaking and confusing than a mother who neglects her children.
Fecal microbe transplants help cancer patients respond to immunotherapy and shrink...
Diwakar Davar, University of Pittsburgh
The effect of a drug, or impact of a treatment like chemotherapy, doesn’t just...
Live bacteria spray is showing promise in treating childhood eczema
Ian Myles, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Here’s a shorthand way to think of my research: Using bugs as drugs may one day...
When plants and their microbes are not in sync, the results...
Sheng-Yang He, Michigan State University
Many of us have heard about inflammatory bowel disease, a debilitating condition that is associated with an abnormal collection of...
Buildings have their own microbiomes – we’re striving to make them...
Kevin Van den Wymelenberg, University of Oregon; Leslie Dietz, University of Oregon, and Mark Fretz, University of Oregon
Architects and building engineers strive to create...
Why Bill Maher is wrong about fat-shaming
Bill Sullivan, Indiana University
On a recent episode of his Friday evening talk show, Bill Maher proposed that society combat obesity by body-shaming overweight individuals....
The womb isn’t sterile – healthy babies are born with bacteria...
Kent Willis, University of Tennessee
For the last hundred years, scientists have believed that humans develop in a womb that remains sterile and completely isolated...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
