Gut microbes help deliver brain energy molecule, offering new path to treat depression

Supplementing creatine alongside specific gut bacteria such as Bifidobacterium could offer a treatment for depression by restoring brain energy metabolism.

From microbiome profiling to ibd diagnostics: Salient Bioscience advances standardized metagenomic testing

Marta Ciechonska of Salient Bioscience presented the company’s approach to developing standardized, reproducible microbiome tests based on shotgun metagenomic sequencing. 

High-fat diets may impair key gut immune cells, weakening intestinal defenses

Reducing dietary fat or controlling gut inflammation could help preserve immune cells and protect gut immunity, offering a strategy to prevent diet-related gut diseases.

Leaky gut may let some bacteria travel to the brain, mouse study shows

Maintaining a healthy gut barrier and microbiota, through diet or other interventions, could help prevent bacteria from reaching the brain, helping maintain neurological health.

Gut microbiota, immunity and diet: twenty years of research and the future of personalized nutrition

Francisco Guarner, from Centro Médico Teknon in Barcelona (Spain), discussed the most recent researches in the field of microbiome and nutrition.

Microbial metabolite shows promise against deadly infant disease

Boosting the gut metabolite indoleacrylic acid (IA), either directly or through the probiotic Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis, help protect the gut and prevent NEC.

Probiotics may help prevent bacterial vaginosis, small clinical study finds

Using probiotics such as LACTIN-V after antibiotic treatment could help prevent bacterial vaginosis, opening the way for tailored treatments based on individual microbiota profiles.

Gut microbes turn low-protein diets into fat-burning beige fat, mice study shows

The findings suggest that targeting specific gut microbes or their metabolites could boost fat-burning and metabolism in response to specific diets.

Gut bacteria cause memory loss in mice, but restoring gut-brain signals reverses it

Targeting gut bacteria, their metabolites, or gut-to-brain signaling could offer new strategies to prevent or treat age-related memory decline. 

VOWST eyes Europe as IdB Holding and Nestlé Health Science bet on microbiome therapeutics

The agreement covers the development and future commercialization in Europe of VOWST®, the first oral LBP approved in the United States to prevent recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection.

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