New AGA report subtleties adequacy and wellbeing of fecal microbiota transplantation Kumar Jeetendra | October 4, 2020 Now, the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) released the first results in the NIH-funded AGA Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) National Registry, the largest real world study about the effectiveness and safety of FMT. Published in Gastroenterology, the registry reported that FMT resulted in a treatment of Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) infection in 90% of individuals across …
Study shows tofacitinib medication can fix porousness absconds in the digestive tract Kumar Jeetendra | October 6, 2020 A team of researchers led by biomedical scientist Declan F. McCole in the University of California, Riverside, has found that the medication tofacitinib, also called Xeljanz and approved by the FDA to treat rheumatoid arthritis and ulcerative colitis, can fix permeability defects in the intestine. Study results appear in the Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis. …
Hereditary components of human gut microbiota are key to wellbeing Kumar Jeetendra | February 6, 2021 Neanderthals’ gut microbiota already contained some beneficial micro-organisms that are also found within our own intestine. An international research group headed by the University of Bologna achieved this result by extracting and analyzing ancient DNA from 50,000-year-old fecal sediments sampled at the archaeological site of El Salt, near Alicante (Spain). Published in Communication Biology, their …
