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FDA-Approved Fecal Microbiota Therapies for C. difficile
A new review highlights FDA-approved fecal microbiota therapies that reduce recurrence of C. difficile infection. The review explores clinic…
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Ozempic, GLP-1 and the gut: what the microbiome has to do with the weight-loss drugs
GLP-1 is a hormone your gut already makes — and your gut bacteria help trigger it. As GLP-1 drugs reshape medicine, here is the evidence-based map of where the microbiome actually fits, and where the probiotic marketing outruns it.
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Exploring the Gut-Bone Connection: Microbiota's Role in Fracture Risk
A new review examines the relationship between gut microbiota and fracture risk, emphasizing the need for targeted interventions to enhance …
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Labor Before Delivery Linked to Lower NEC Risk in VLBW Infants
A new study explores how labor prior to delivery may influence the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants.
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Gut Microbiota's Role in Neonatal Jaundice Explored
A new study investigates the causal relationships between gut microbiota, inflammatory factors, and neonatal jaundice using Mendelian Random…
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Early-Life Stress Alters Gut Microbiome in Rats, Study Finds
Research using rat models reveals that early-life stress can cause sex-dependent changes in the gut microbiome during adolescence, highlight…
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Chenodeoxycholic Acid's Role in Tumor Immunity Explored
A new study investigates how chenodeoxycholic acid influences tumor immunity through dendritic cells and TGR5 signaling, offering insights i…
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Gut Microbiome Signatures May Predict Kidney Transplant Rejection
A new study suggests that pre-transplant gut microbiome profiles could help predict early acute rejection in kidney transplant recipients, o…
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Heavy Metals and Cancer: Unraveling Molecular Mechanisms
A new review explores the complex ways heavy metals contribute to cancer, highlighting molecular interactions and the role of the gut microb…
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Antibiotic Resistance in Gut Microbiota of Pediatric COVID-19 Patients
A new study investigates the prevalence of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in the gut microbiota of pediatric COVID-19 patients, h…
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FDA-Approved Fecal Microbiota Therapies for C. difficile
A new review highlights FDA-approved fecal microbiota therapies that reduce recurrence of C. difficile infection. The review explores clinic…
Therapeutics
A stool transplant made cancer immunotherapy work better — across two cancers
In the phase 2 FMT-LUMINate trial, pairing a healthy-donor fecal transplant with checkpoint inhibitors pushed response rates to 80% in lung …
Therapeutics
It’s official: the FDA now approves medicines made of microbes
Within five months the agency cleared two first-in-class fecal-microbiota products for recurrent C. difficile — Ferring’s Rebyota and, in a …
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Exploring the Gut-Bone Connection: Microbiota's Role in Fracture Risk
A new review examines the relationship between gut microbiota and fracture risk, emphasizing the need for targeted interventions to enhance …
Science
Labor Before Delivery Linked to Lower NEC Risk in VLBW Infants
A new study explores how labor prior to delivery may influence the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants.
Science
Gut Microbiota's Role in Neonatal Jaundice Explored
A new study investigates the causal relationships between gut microbiota, inflammatory factors, and neonatal jaundice using Mendelian Random…
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Probiotics Show Promise in Countering Chronic Hypoxia Effects
A new study explores how probiotics may mitigate the impact of chronic hypoxia on the gut-brain axis and neuroinflammation in mice.
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Does Parkinson’s start in the gut? What the evidence actually shows
Constipation can precede the tremor by a decade, the brain’s rogue protein turns up in the gut wall first, and removing the vagus nerve seem…
Gut–Brain
Psychobiotics: do probiotics actually help depression and anxiety?
The gut–brain axis is real, the mechanisms are plausible, and the marketing has run far ahead of the trials. What the meta-analyses actually…
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The probiotics market grows up: from yogurt aisle to strain-level precision
“Live cultures” is becoming a measurable claim. Inside the industry shift from vague probiotics to defined, characterized strains.
Industry
Ozempic, GLP-1 and the gut: what the microbiome has to do with the weight-loss drugs
GLP-1 is a hormone your gut already makes — and your gut bacteria help trigger it. As GLP-1 drugs reshape medicine, here is the evidence-bas…
Industry
Meet Akkermansia: the single strain dragging probiotics into the GLP-1 era
One gut bacterium has become the face of “next-generation” probiotics — a defined, characterized strain with human metabolic data and a tant…
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Gut Microbiome Signatures May Predict Kidney Transplant Rejection
A new study suggests that pre-transplant gut microbiome profiles could help predict early acute rejection in kidney transplant recipients, o…
Diagnostics
16S vs shotgun: what your microbiome test actually reads
Two sequencing methods sit behind nearly every gut test on the market, and they don’t read the same book. One tells you roughly who is there…
Diagnostics
Your at-home gut test and your friend’s might disagree more than your guts do
A 2026 NIST study found direct-to-consumer microbiome tests so inconsistent that the noise between brands rivaled the real biological differ…