The latest issue of the Minnesota Law Review features an article growing out of work by Legal Project Assistant Emily Scholtes on the Consortium's NIH-funded grant, Disclosing Genomic Incidental Findings in a Cancer Biobank.
On February 17, Alexander Khoruts, MD, of the University of Minnesota's Microbiota Therapeutics Program delivered the first lecture in the three-part Consortium-sponsored microbiome series.
At a Consortium-hosted lecture today, pediatrician Stacy Kahn (University of Chicago) spoke about the challenges of helping patients make the right decisions about Fecal Microbiome Transplantation (FMT).
Healthy Fish Choices, an EPA-funded online course, offers training for health care providers and public health workers who want to spread the word about the safest way to consume fish in the face of concerns about the environmental health impacts of toxic chemicals. The research-based curriculum was developed as part of the USDA's 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which recom
In today's issue of Nature Microbiology, University of Minnesota professors Michael J. Sadowsky, PhD, and Alexander Khoruts, MD, warn against the spread of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) into clinical or domestic settings that may not allow for the proper administration of the therapy. They note that the relative simplicity of using FMT to treat recurrent C.
At a Precision Medicine Initiative Summit held at the White House yesterday, President Barack Obama reflected on progress made since he announced the effort in January, 2015, and proposed a series of measures to accelerate related medical advances.
CBC News reports that new research has identified a key mechanism of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Dr. Apostolos Georgopoulos, who is on the faculty of Consortium member the Center for Cognitive Sciences, also leads the Brain Sciences Center at the Minneapolis VA.
A robot originally built by University of Minnesota dentistry professor Ralph DeLong to test dental restoration materials is now being used by food companies to evaluate new versions of existing products. In response to consumer demand for healthier ingredients, many food items are being made with less sugar, salt, or without artificial coloring. But, as DeLong notes, “Sugar doesn't just make a product sweet and salt doesn't just make it salty.
New research led by Dr. Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello indicates a promising new therapy for babies born by c-section. Cesarean infants typically have less diverse microbiomes when compared to babies born vaginally, a factor associated with increased risk for immune and metabolic disorders. In the study, described in Nature Medicine, infants delivered by c-section were swabbed with their mothers' vaginal fluids immediately upon being born.
The rapid spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus is the latest major challenge to global public health. While the outbreak is currently most serious in Brazil, causing thousands of birth defects, it has already arrived in the U.S. and is expected to continue its explosive growth. There is currently no vaccine or cure for the illness.