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From The Labs

Understanding the world within: study reveals new insights into phage–bacteria interactions in the gut microbiome

February 25, 2025 bacteria,  diabetes type 1,  microbiome,  phages,  Research,  TEDDY study

By evaluating temporal trends in the guts of developing children, this study helps to lay the groundwork for therapeutics and diagnostics leveraging the microbiome and its constituents.

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From The Labs

Microbiome’s link to severe graft-versus-host disease suggests potential treatment

February 28, 2023 bone marrow transplant,  GVHD,  iron chelator,  microbiome,  oxygen,  Research

This is one of the first studies to provide an explanation and a potential solution for the imbalance in the gut microbiome that exacerbates GVHD.

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From The Labs

A novel, powerful tool to unveil communication between gut microbes and the brain

January 13, 2023 gut-brain axis,  microbe metabolites,  microbiome,  Research

This protocol gives researchers a road map to understand the complex traffic system between the gut and the brain and its effects.

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From The Labs

Emu has improved the accuracy of bacterial identification

July 7, 2022 16S,  bacterial identification,  microbiome,  next-generation sequencing,  Research,  rRNA

Emu can advance our understanding of the roles of the microbiome in water, soil and the intestinal tract.

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From The Labs

April is National Autism Awareness Month

April 12, 2022 fruit fly,  microbiome,  National Autism Awareness Month,  PTEN,  Research,  single-cell connections,  Vaccines

From the Labs presents a sample of Baylor’s basic research work contributing to a better understanding of autism and related disorders.

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From The Labs

Light-activated genes illuminate the role of gut microbes in longevity

January 28, 2021 Aging,  C. elegans,  colanic acid,  Longevity,  microbiome,  optogenetics,  Research

Optogenetics, a method that uses light to regulate gene expression, can control gut bacterial metabolism to promote longevity.

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From The Labs

Your microbiome is what you eat

July 30, 2019 Colorectal Cancer,  diet,  Fusobacteria,  microbiome,  Research

When you eat, you also feed your microbiome and influence the structure of the microbial community in the gut. Understanding how all this is connected

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From The Labs

‘Can you hear me, now?’ A new strategy ‘raises the volume’ of hard-to-detect gut-body communication

June 27, 2019 enteroendocrine cells,  enteroids,  gut-body communication,  microbiome,  neurogenin-3,  Norovirus,  Research,  rotavirus,  serotonin

Throughout the gastrointestinal tract there are specialized hormone-producing cells called enteroendocrine cells and, although they comprise only a small population of the total cells, they

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From The Labs

New evidence supports the presence of microbes in the placenta

June 13, 2019 bacterial RNA,  imaging,  microbiome,  placenta,  Pregnancy,  Research

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine previously found evidence that the placenta harbors a sparse but still present community of microorganisms, which they and other

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From The Labs

The power of the microbiome: A microbe-based treatment reverses social deficits in mouse models of autism

December 13, 2018 autism spectrum disorders,  L. reuteri,  microbial-based treatment,  microbiome,  Mouse models,  Research,  social deficits

An unconventional bacteria-based approach has successfully reversed deficits in social behaviors associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in genetic, environmental and idiopathic mouse models of

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Blood vessels (magenta) intertwined with metastatic medulloblastoma tumor cells (green) nestled within the protective layers that surround the mouse spinal cord. From the Labs: a closer look at metastatic medulloblastoma

Healthy Habits: A DOC-umentary Series

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