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Researchers analyzing the metagenomes of stool samples found the microbes Escherichia coli and Ruminococcus gnavus were more abundant than expected in patients with inflammatory arthritis.
Supriya Mehta and co-workers investigate occurrence of sexual health outcomes following provision of menstrual cups in Kenyan schools.
Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have been awarded $10.7 million from the National Institutes of Health to study how human health is impacted by exposure to microbes. The studies will also explore how microbiomes are impacted by environmental and social-economic gradients in Hawaiʻi, and how an animal’s microbiome confers persistent health, using invertebrate hosts.
A second grant of more than $10 million from the National Institutes of Health furthers UH as a microbiome research center of excellence.
A study has uncovered an association between elevated levels of two Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers and reduced levels of neuroprotective bacteria in the digestive system.