Recent Articles

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  Timing is Everything: ISB Study Finds Link Between Bowel Movement Frequency and Overall Health

   Posted on July 16, 2024

  Everybody poops, but not every day. An ISB-led research team examined the clinical, lifestyle, and multi-omic data of more than 1,400 healthy adults. How often people poop, they found, can have a large influence on one’s physiology and health.

• Hack Your Health: An Evening with Anjali Nayar and Dr. Sean Gibbons

   Posted on July 3, 2024

  Netflix’s “Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut” is a documentary that merged gut microbiome experts, four individuals – including a well-known hot dog eating champion – facing personal battles with gastrointestinal health, and a unique, effective visual method of “showing” the gut microbiome in action. 

• A New Path Toward Microbiome-Informed Precision Nutrition

   Posted on June 24, 2024

  ISB researchers have developed a novel way to simulate personalized, microbiome-mediated responses to diet. They use a microbial community-scale metabolic modeling (MCMM) approach to predict individual-specific short-chain fatty acid production rates in response to different dietary, prebiotic, and probiotic inputs.