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Caesarian babies develop fewer beneficial gut bacteria

Apr 14, 2019

Babies born from caesarean delivery are slower to develop helpful gut bacteria, and develop a higher quantity of “bad” bacteria than babies delivered through vaginal birth, a new study suggests. The gut microbi...

Researchers link depression to deficiencies of specific gut microbes

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Feb 5, 2019

Health, Science

Researchers have linked mental health problems such as depression to deficiencies of two specific gut microbes, in the first population-level research on the relationship between mental health and the gut micro...

Scientists propose gut microbe vault, modeled after Norway’s Seed Vault

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Oct 7, 2018

Health, Science

A new proposal from scientists seeks to establish an international microbe vault, modeled off of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway, according to The Guardian. Beneficial gut microbes are vanishing as mod...

New molecule offers a novel approach to combat drug resistant microbes

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Sep 12, 2018

Health, Innovation, Science

A new drug uses fresh tactics to kill potentially deadly drug-resistant bacteria, which have become increasingly common in recent years. The new antibiotic was described in a report published Wednesday in the j...

Drug-resistant typhoid outbreak spreading rapidly in Pakistan

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Jul 17, 2018

Health, Science, World

A drug-resistant strain of typhoid is spreading in Pakistan, infecting over 2000 people in the past 6 months, according to Science. The new XDR (extensively drug resistant) strain of Salmonella typhi is vulnera...

Two new studies link MS to certain bacteria in the gut microbiome

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Sep 21, 2017

Health, Science

Two new papers have linked multiple sclerosis to the certain bacteria in the gut microbiome, a term for the trillions of bacteria than inhabit human intestines. Multiple sclerosis, or MS, is an autoimmune disor...

New “super-antibiotic” could bolster last line of defense against drug resistance

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May 31, 2017

Health, Innovation, Science

A new “super-antibiotic” has been developed to combat drug resistant bacteria, which is 25,000 times stronger than its predecessor, vancomycin 1.0. The new drug, vancomycin 3.0, uses a three-pronged method to c...

Stronger action is needed to combat drug resistant microbes

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May 21, 2017

Health, Opinion, Policy, Science

Already, a shocking 23,000 people die in the US each year from bacteria that have evolved a resistance to existing antibiotics. These drug-resistant infections kill an estimated 700,000 people each year globall...

Researchers at Rutgers examine the popular “five-second rule” notion

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Sep 21, 2016

Health, Science

Researchers at Rutgers University have partially disproven one age-old urban myth, which says that food dropped on the ground is safe to eat if picked up within five seconds. Professor of Food Science at Rutger...

CDC reports first dog-to-human deadly bacteria transmission

Cody Gash

May 1, 2015

Health

Colorado – A dog carrying plaque infection has spread the disease among at least four humans in the first of its kind dog-to-human bacteria transmission. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr...

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