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[ARTICLE] Microbiome Analysis: 16S Metabarcoding or Shotgun Metagenomics?

Jul 3, 2024 | Microbiome

To date, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques remain the most commonly used methodologies for studying the microbiome, a major subject of scientific research in recent years. Among the thousands of articles published each year (illustration 1), two main...

[ARTICLE] Skin-to-skin contact: an effective anti-stress strategy that also favourably impacts the gut microbiota

Jun 12, 2024 | Microbiome

Birth is an intensely stressful event for both the baby and the mother. Stress hormones help the baby adapt to the new, cold, dry, and oxygen-rich environment outside the womb. However, excessive stress can be harmful. Fortunately, the body has anti-stress mechanisms...

Clinical trials versus user experience studies: necessary and complementary scenarios

Feb 1, 2024 | Nutrition

Clinical studies are research studies performed on human subjects with a view to furthering biological or medical knowledge. These studies require collecting data on patients or healthy volunteers, to better understand physiological or pathological conditions,...

Make clinical data reviews more efficient with the interactive visualisation of Patient Profiles

Nov 23, 2023 | Microbiome

From context to implementation of idea An important step in any clinical trial is the blind data review. This process takes place between the end of the study (when the data are collected, input, and validated) and the breaking of the blind and final data lock, after...

How does our platform AnonyMine solve the problem of Data Anonymisation?

Sep 1, 2023 | Health, Microbiome, Nutrition

Would you like to reuse data for other studies, communicate on internal research, or just publish sensitive data? By becoming GDPR-compliant, our anonymisation platform AnonyMine, specialized in high-dimensional data such as clinical and microbiome, gives a second...

[ARTICLE] Vaginal seeding: a natural supplementation for newborns?

Jun 16, 2023 | Microbiome

In some maternity wards, babies delivered by caesarean (C)-section undergo a strange practice, called « Vaginal seeding »: one hour before the surgery, a sheet of gauze is inserted into the mother's vagina, which is used, immediately after birth, to dab the baby in...

[ARTICLE] – How is microbiota involved in childhood mental illnesses such as ADHD and ASD?

Apr 7, 2023 | Health, Microbiome

There is growing evidence that the gut and the brain are linked. First observation: mental illnesses are commonly associated with gastrointestinal disorders, patients with neurological diseases often experience constipation, abdominal pain, or diarrhoea. Second: the...

[ARTICLE] Long chain unsaturated fat is cytotoxic for cancer cells

Dec 22, 2022 | Health

Killing tumour cells by fatty indigestion: here is the strategy to fight cancer, explored by Belgian scientists from Louvain University. Their work, recently published in Cell Metabolism(1), provided many convincing arguments from in vitro and animal experiments. Not...

[ARTICLE] Microbes in semen…

Nov 2, 2022 | Microbiome

It is quite well-known nowadays that our body cavities such as the gut, mouth, nose, lungs, vagina, or our skin surface, shelter millions of micro-organisms: these communities are called microbiomes. In recent years, more confidential microbiomes have been described:...

[ARTICLE] Diet supplementation with the probiotic Saccharomyces cerevisiae helps alleviate abdominal pain of IBS patients.

Jun 28, 2022 | Microbiome

IBS is a 3-letter acronym that strongly impacts the lives of millions of people worldwide. It stands for irritable bowel syndrome, a complex condition that exhibits various forms, depending on the predominant stool pattern: diarrhea, constipation, mixed or...