Tag: Microbiome
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...
An artist’s journey into the science of sweat
Paul Vanouse, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
During steamy days, a body’s physiological response may cause you to wrinkle your nose:...
Bacteria live on our eyeballs — and understanding their role could...
Tony St. Leger, University of Pittsburgh
You may be familiar with the idea that your gut and skin are home to a collection of microbes...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
