Genetics/Genomics

An initial baseline healthy gut microbiome database and abundance profile is described in a new study published in the journal PLOS One.

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Researchers developed a gene therapy that specifically reduces fat tissue and reverses obesity-related metabolic disease in obese mice, according to

Infants and young children with epilepsy due to a confirmed genetic abnormality had a better response to treatment with ketogenic diet compared to

A team of microbiologists and bioinformaticians from Harvard Medical School and Joslin Diabetes Center offer a first glimpse of the array of genes

Gut-infecting bacterium Clostridium difficile (C. diffcile) is evolving to thrive in people eating a Western sugar-rich diet, according to a new

Scientists have devised a new computational method that reveals genetic patterns in the massive jumble of individual cells in the body, which will be

A special class of beneficial gut bacteria, called Clostridia, prevents mice from becoming obese, suggesting these same microbes may similarly

The quality of dietary fat consumed and the genetic risk of diabetes work independently of each other, and a diet rich in polyunsaturated fats can be