Microbiology

Defining Microbiome Deviancy Down: Now Even Nanoparticles Impact Your Gut?

Though our guts contain a trillion bacteria in various compositions, it's become popular to claim any detectable change is a bad thing. Unless it is to sell yogurt, where no detectable change is regarded as a probiotic good thing. Now even at the nano ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2019 - 12:24pm

Gut Microbes and Their Relationship to Depression

      Two Studies in Europe have concluded that gut microbes can affect mood and/or depression. One, a study led by Jeroen Raes, a microbiologist at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, studied 1054 people. Within this group 173 people either had ...

Blog Post - Scott Beers - Feb 7 2019 - 1:44pm

Artificial Sweeteners Are Not Harmful For Gut Microbiota, They Are Even Prebiotics

Food is plentiful and affordable, and that has brought an increase in consumption of foods that matched an ancient evolutionary mandate; sweetness. In ancient times, humans knew that sweetness meant more calories and in a world where they often weren' ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 21 2019 - 12:33pm

Update On The Science Race Against Wheat Stem Rust

Scientists continue to gain ground in the race against wheat stem rust, a pathogen that threatens global food security because of its ability to kill wheat. The new chink in nature's armor was discovered in the first rust virulence molecule that whea ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2019 - 9:40am

A Microscope- What A Wonderful Toy

I have always been fascinated by optical instruments that provide magnified views of Nature: microscopes, binoculars, telescopes. As a child I badly wanted to watch the Moon, planets, and stars, and see as much detail as I could on all possible targets; at ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 12 2019 - 12:37am

Lyme Disease Is Not A Military Bioweapon

Could Lyme disease in the U.S. be the result of an accidental release from a secret bioweapons experiment? Could the military have specifically engineered the Lyme disease bacterium to be more insidious and destructive – and then let it somehow escape the ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 31 2019 - 5:01am

The Placental Microbiome Is The Schrodinger's Cat Of Biology, Which Means It Isn't Science Yet

People are rushing to buy supplements because of (correct) claims that the microbiome is important. While the science on helpful microbes is correct it does not mean yogurt or any other food- even organic, try as their trade groups try to claim that- is he ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 1 2019 - 3:48pm

Raw Milk Is Illegal In Australia But Unpasteurized Milk Is Now For Sale

Raw dairy is diarrhea and vomiting waiting to happen, there is a reason heat pasteurization is credited with saving a billion lives, but a company in Australia has used a legal loophole to milk raw believers into buying their un-pasteurized product. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 12 2019 - 12:17pm

We Can't Live On Food That Is Hundreds Of Years Old But Microbes Can

Microbial communities living in deep aquatic sediments have adapted to survive on really old food, according to a new study. Learning how these microorganisms function on old, poor-quality food at a very slow pace could have future uses in biomedical appli ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2019 - 3:58pm

Attention Athletes: Get Ready For Performance-Enhancing Bacteria Probiotic Microbiome Omics Hype

String Theory, stem cells, epigenetics, antioxidants, they've all been important basic research that got exaggerated beyond recognition, which got media attention, which got people rushing into the fields and led to even more papers making increasingl ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 6 2019 - 8:31am