Tag: Human Microbiome Project

  • Nation & World

    The IBD–gut bug connection

    A new study is the first to have observed the complex set of chemical and molecular events that disrupt the microbiome and trigger immune responses during flare-ups of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

    5 minutes
    Gut bacteria microbiome. 3D illustration.
  • Nation & World

    Life partner

    Researchers in the Harvard lab of Bauer Fellow Peter Turnbaugh are seeking to understand how the microbes that live in our intestines affect the drugs we take and the food we eat.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Mapping microbes in people

    New studies involving Harvard School of Public Health researchers have helped to identify and analyze the vast human “microbiome,” the more than 5 million microbial genes in the body.

    6 minutes