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Published on December 12, 2017
Additional microbiome tests beyond Genetic Analysis' GA-map Dysbiosis Test will be supplied and distributed through Bio-Rad Laboratories, the companies said today, through an extended collaboration whose value was not disclosed. The new agreement builds upon a partnership between the companies launched in November 2016. At the time, Bio-Rad agreed to…
Published on November 1, 2017
Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York recently published research that offers new insights into the role microbiome composition and enzyme activity plays on the likelihood cancer patient will suffer from potentially life-threatening diarrhea following treatment with the chemotherapy agent irinotecan. The research indicates it may…
Published on October 11, 2017
A team of researchers at the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center in Texas carried out what they claim is the first prospective study looking at the effects of human gut microbiota and metabolites on response to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy ICT for metastastic melanoma, using either ipilimumab, nivolumab, ipilimumab…
Published on August 29, 2017
Next-generation sequencing studies by Alan E. Hoban, Ph.D., Gerard Clarke, Ph.D., and colleagues at the the APC Microbiome Institute at University College Cork have uncovered a link between the gut microbiome and microRNA (miRNA) expression in the brains of rats and mice that could feasibly lead to new approaches to…
Published on August 4, 2016
The breast is a microenvironment. It consists of epithelium, stroma, and a mucosal immune system. It is also home to a collection of microbes. Call them partners, bystanders, or interlopers, these microbes are actually community members. And it is as a community that a particular collection of microbes—a microbiome—may impact…