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How good gut bacteria help reduce the risk for heart disease
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Ohio [USA], July 9 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that one of the good bacteria found in the human gut has a benefit that has remained unrecognized until now -- the potential to reduce the risk for heart disease.
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Diet affects microbial composition of human gut: Study
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 29 (ANI): The microbial composition of the human gut is largely affected by the diet consumed by the individual, suggests a new study.
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Adaptations in gut microbes helped our ancestors thrive in new geographica
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 22 (ANI): The adaptations which took place in the human gut microbes (microbiome) over several millennia might have helped our ancestors to spread out and thrive in new geographical territories around the world.
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Changes in gut bacteria helped human ancestors to survive in new geographi
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 19 (ANI): A new study has suggested that adaptive changes in the microbes inhabiting the human gut (gut microbiome) might be one of the factors responsible for human evolution, allowing our ancestors to survive in new geographic areas and spread around the world.
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Study discovers unhealthy diet as threat to good gut bacteria
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Nov 5 (ANI): A new study reveals the fact that the evolution of dietary and hygienic habits in Western countries is associated with a decrease in the bacteria that helps in digestion. It explores the variation and evolution of 'Prevotella copri', a common human gut micr
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Good bacteria may prevent food allergy: Study
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 25 (ANI): The epidemic of food allergy is caused by the absence of certain beneficial bacteria in the human gut, researchers suggest.
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Almost 2,000 bacteria discovered in human gut
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 12 (ANI): Researchers have now identified almost 2,000 bacterial species living the human gut. The team from EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Sanger Institute used a range of computational methods to analyse samples from individuals worldwi
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Don't be so clean! Obsession with hygiene could kill benefial bacteri
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 20. (ANI): Good news for all those lazy-headed not-really-a-cleanliness-freak out there! Scientists have found out that the obsession with hygiene could even be turning some beneficial bacteria found in the human gut into "endangered species".
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