Tag: microbiota

Fecal Transplants Effective, Life Changing, and Potentially Dangerous

Even with seven years and eight rounds of antibiotics, Megan Owen couldn’t fight an infection brought on when she drank contaminated water on a mission trip to Brazil. The illness gave her terrible diarrhea and stomach aches that drove her to the floor in a fetal position and prevented her from going anywhere that took…


Study Answers Why Not All Obese People Develop Diabetes

A study by Oregon State University may have found a reason behind why some obese people develop type 2 diabetes but not all, indicating a difference in gene activity as well as modulation by a bacteria called Oscillibacter valericigenes (OV). The team’s study suggests that the activity of a gene named Mmp12; a gene regulated…