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Science

Gut bacteria can sense their environment and it's key to your health

Exercise

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3 weeks ago

Scientists Intrigued by Microbe That That Makes Mice Swole

A gut microbe called Roseburia inulinivorans may enhance muscle strength and fitness, particularly in older adults.

fromScienceDaily

Science

Gut bacteria can sense their environment and it's key to your health

Lab-grown oesophagus restores pigs' ability to swallow

Bioengineered oesophagi from stem cells successfully implanted in pigs, restoring swallowing ability, with potential applications for human treatments.

Medicine

fromwww.scientificamerican.com

A single course of antibiotics can cause lingering changes in gut microbes

Antibiotic courses cause gut bacterial diversity loss that persists for four to eight years after treatment.

Medicine

Antibiotics may mess up a person's gut for years, study finds

Even a single antibiotic course causes lasting reductions in gut bacterial diversity, with effects varying significantly by drug type.

Health

fromScienceDaily

Scientists say this simple diet change could transform your gut health

Consuming adequate daily fiber supports digestive health, reduces disease risk, and improves long-term health outcomes across lifespan.

Public health

Six highlights from lung-health research

AI models combining sensor, satellite, traffic, and weather data can substantially improve air-quality forecasting and warnings but face data, transferability, interpretability, and energy-cost limitations.

fromwww.npr.org

Scientists find a new clue to help them identify a healthy gut microbiome

There are some communities that are very unhealthy where the diversity is higher. Low diversity is not a universal marker. We found something that at first seemed surprising. That a healthy microbiome has lots of competition. These bugs are all going after the same food. In an unhealthy gut, on the other hand, you see tight cooperation - microorganisms are helping each other out.

Medicine

Could the regenerative power of the lungs help to reverse disease?

When surgeons removed a 33-year-old woman's right lung as part of her cancer treatment in 1995, they expected a dramatic and permanent reduction in her breathing power. But that's not what happened. Instead, her remaining lung pulled off a trick that scientists had long thought impossible in humans: it grew new tissue, and lots of it. Over the next 15 years, her left lung compensated for the loss of its partner by nearly doubling in volume and growing millions of new air sacs, called alveoli.

Medicine