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

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…

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.

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...

[INFOGRAPHIC] Microbiome & Chocolate

After a long Easter weekend filled with chocolate, it’s time to offer you an infographic on the impact of chocolate on the human microbiome. A digest of different articles on cocoa is the best way to understand the link between chocolate and microbiome, you will find...