Happy to be 1/MANY who contributed to this review on the still debated issue of the fetal #microbiome led by ⁦Jens Walter⁩ ⁦Kate Kennedy, PhD⁩ and Marcus de Goffau nature.com/articles/s4158…

Late breaking at #ADA23: In this trial involving participants with obesity, 48 weeks of treatment with retatrutide, an agonist of the GIP, GLP-1, and GCG receptors, resulted in substantial reductions in body weight. nej.md/3JoNIh6

Aspartame, a popular artificial sweetener, is now categorized as a possible carcinogen by World Health Organization (WHO). Should you be concerned? Find out from our Dr. Ernest Hawk: fal.cn/3zZxt Ernest Hawk, MD, MPH #EndCancer

Fantastic work!

Congratulations to AFNS researcher Michael Gänzle, who has been recognized by the Royal Society of Canada!

Apparently @nature has a serious concern that we were correct–that the cancer microbiome is just not there, as we described in our paper now published in mBio. The Nature paper now has an Editor's Note:

A microbial solution to hyperuricemia. New work finds inverse association between Alistipes indistinctus & #hyperuricemia. A. indistinctus and associated hippuric acid increases intestinal urate excretion, lowering serum uric acid cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Our neonatal rat nutritional intervention model has been published! It enables investigation into the role of nutritional factors in newborns by artificially rearing rats away from the mother with experimental diets starting at postnatal day 4 for up to 18 days.

$20M from Taylor Family Foundation to UCalgary Kinesiology strengthens position as a top NA sports science school and international leader in human performance, movement and sport science research.

Excited that the perspective on bile acid modifications with Knight Lab is out. It is aimed to be a bit provocative. IMO - we need to rewrite and update all biochemistry textbooks. These are some of the most important molecules in biology. See rdcu.be/dDHoC

The future of gut microbiome manipulation in medicine laid out here is remarkable sciencedirect.com/science/articl… William Fusco ElinavLab Gianluca Ianiro Giovanni Cammarota Hugh Thomas The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Daily doses of 16g oligofructose-enriched inulin over 6 months improved physical function and metabolic health in osteoarthritis and obesity patients. We’re now investigating the mechanisms. Stay tuned! ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04172688 rdcu.be/dHATG

Good or bad? Well, it is context dependent! The two faces of Akkermansia muciniphila in our new paper: embopress.org/doi/full/10.10… in Mol Syst Biol Thanks to Aqsa Mohammed/Robert Jenq for News and Views: embopress.org/doi/full/10.10… and SciStories LLC for support with the cover art.

Unexpected, challenging dogma: gene expression is driven by DNA sequence variants with little contribution by methylation nature.com/articles/s4158… Nature Genetics deCODE genetics Oxford Nanopore

Join our virtual immunology symposium Scripps Research on Wed, Sept 18 featuring Zuri Sullivan, Alex Wells, Djenet Bousbaine, Dr. Valeria M. Reyes Ruiz, Maria Cecilia Canesso, Dr. Delconte, Liwen Deng, & Nagela Ghabdan Zanluqui. Register: bit.ly/ScrippsLeaders

It is an astute angle to integrate aspects of nutrition, metabolism, and infectious disease control.

Insightful article on recent advances in #IBD research, featuring studies on novel mechanisms and genetic and microbial associations that promise more effective, individualized therapies. (1/4) nature.com/articles/d4158…

ICYMI: 👀Strain-specific gut microbial signatures in type 2 diabetes identified in a cross-cohort analysis of 8,117 metagenomes Nature Medicine nature.com/articles/s4159…

Fantastic output from MASTER IA H2020 now published in Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Great work!