Vast consumer datasets have led scientists at personalised nutrition platform ‘Zoe’ to pinpoint ‘good’ and ‘bad’ bacteria and provide precision advice which goes beyond general microbiome diversity.
Dietary vegetable oils might help improve hypocholesterolemia due to the role played by cholesterol-lowering phytonutrients in the gut microbiome, according to a recent study.
When it comes to large-scale mining of microbiome data sets, the process can be complicated, tedious, and downright overwhelming. Given the large volume of data, it is difficult to relate a new microbiome sample to the huge number of existing microbiome...
We may have taken a step closer to understanding what a ‘healthy microbiome’ looks like, as scientists at the Mayo Clinic report the development of the Gut Microbiome Health Index. The proposed index may help differentiate a healthy microbiome from a...
Using shotgun metagenomics applied to archaeological feces, an international team of scientists have unveiled a new method that provides fresh insight into the composition and functions of ancient human and animal gut microbiota.
Current microbiome analysis methods are lacking high-resolution measurements and are unlikely to yield clinically relevant data in many conditions, but genome guided metagenomic analysis could address these current limitations.