https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/body-knows-best-natural-healing-mechanism-inflammatory-bowel-disease
May 30, 2018
Treating inflammatory diseases of the bowel is extremely challenging because their causes are complex: Genes, gut microbes and disrupted immune function are but some of the contributing factors. Weizmann Institute of Science researchers are proposing a way around this complexity...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/gut-bacteria-have-outsized-influence
December 12, 2016
The bacteria we carry around with us in our digestive tract have an influence that spans far beyond the lining of our guts. In research recently published in Cell, a collaborative group at the Weizmann Institute of Science has connected the dots between gut bacteria, their changi...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/gut-microbes-contribute-recurrent-“yo-yo”-obesity
November 24, 2016
Embargoed until 1600 London time / 1100 US Eastern Time/ 18:00 Jerusalem Time, on 24 November, 2016 Following a successful diet, many people are dismayed to find their weight rebounding – an all-too-common phenomenon termed “recurrent” or “yo-yo” obesity. Worse still,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-does-your-microbiome-grow
September 1, 2015
It is increasingly clear that the thousands of different bacteria living in our intestinal tract – our microbiome – have a major impact on our health. But the details of the microbiome’s effects are still fairly murky. A Weizmann Institute study that recently appeared in Science...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/reading-biological-clock-dark
October 21, 2014
Our species’ waking and sleeping cycles – shaped in millions of years of evolution – have been turned upside down within a single century with the advent of electric lighting and airplanes. As a result, millions of people regularly disrupt their biological clocks – for example, s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/gut-bacteria-artificial-sweeteners-and-glucose-intolerance
September 17, 2014
Artificial sweeteners, promoted as aids to weight loss and diabetes prevention, could actually hasten the development of glucose intolerance and metabolic disease; and they do it in a surprising way: by changing the composition and function of the gut microbiota – the substa...