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# [http://www.nature.com/ctg/journal/v6/n6/full/ctg201516a.html] Summary of possible mechanisms relating gut microbiome to obesity.<br> | # [http://www.nature.com/ctg/journal/v6/n6/full/ctg201516a.html] Summary of possible mechanisms relating gut microbiome to obesity.<br> | ||
# [http://mbio.asm.org/content/7/4/e01018-16] Recent review critiquing microbiome role in obesity. | # [http://mbio.asm.org/content/7/4/e01018-16] Recent review critiquing microbiome role in obesity. | ||
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Revision as of 17:14, 2 October 2016
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Everyone
Required Reading/Viewing
- [1] "How our microbes make us who we are". (17 min)
Talk by Rob Knight about the human microbiome, Feb 2014. - [2] "Microbiome engineering." Sonnenburg on potential applications of microbiome engineering.
- [3] Brief description of four companies currently designing microbiome therapies.
- NIH Microbiome Project. Ethical concerns of microbiome research and probiotics. Read abstract for each section.
1. Fecal Transplants
Required Reading/Viewing
- [4] Fecal microbiome transplant in the treatment of C. difficile
- [5] History of fecal transplants.
- [6] Slideshow summary of fecal microbiome transplants by gastroenterologists (some medical jargon, but informative).
- [7] Do it yourself fecal transplants. Yep.
2. Microbiome and Obesity
Required Reading/Viewing
- [8] Summary of possible mechanisms relating gut microbiome to obesity.
- [9] Recent review critiquing microbiome role in obesity.
3. Microbiome after birth and in development
Required Reading/Viewing
- [10] Scientists swab C-section babies with mothers' microbes
- [11] Effect of antibiotics on microbiome throughout development