Items Tagged ‘Microbiome Program’
November 16, 2020
A World in a Grain of Sand: New Discoveries in Kidney Stones
The Mayo Clinic and Illinois Alliance for Technology-Based Healthcare has a 10-year history of collaborations that led to important new medical knowledge and treatments. Now, joint research at Mayo Clinic and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is suggesting new possibilities for treating and preventing painful kidney stones. “Our research collaboration with the University of […]
Tags: #Kidney stones, Dr. Nicholas Chia, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, Microbiome Program, Research
September 15, 2020
Mayo scientists develop mathematical index to distinguish healthy microbiome from diseased
By Susan Murphy 
What causes some people to develop chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, cancer and metabolic syndrome while others stay healthy? A major clue could be found in their gut microbiome — the trillions of microbes living inside the digestive system that regulate various bodily functions. To utilize the huge population of tiny organisms as a […]
Tags: bacteria, Gut Microbiome, individualized medicine, Microbiome Program
December 16, 2019
Mayo Clinic researchers look at post menopause as key factor in endometrial cancer
Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a microbiome signature associated with endometrial cancer, which is in part promoted by post menopause. In a study, supported by Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine and published in Scientific Reports, researchers sought to understand how endometrial cancer risk factors alter the reproductive tract microbiome and endometrial cancer risk. “If […]
Tags: cancer, Endometrial cancer, microbiome, Microbiome Program
June 13, 2017
The magic of the microbiome: new Mayo researcher looks for ways to promote health, prevent disease
By Sharon Rosen
“Don’t miss seeing the forest by focusing only on the trees,” explains Jaeyun Sung, Ph.D., a systems biologist who recently joined the Microbiome Program within Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine. That is Dr. Sung’s approach to exploring how the microbiome – the tens of trillions of microbes within and on our bodies – affects […]
Tags: #childhood obesity, #CIMCon17, #digestive system, #Dr. Jaeyun Sung, #gut health, #individualized diets, #microbes, #probiotics, biomarker, center for individualized medicine, gut bacteria, mayo clinic
August 4, 2016
By Sharon Rosen
Researchers in the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine have been studying the community of bacteria, known as the microbiome, that live in many areas of our body for clues about how these bacteria help us stay healthy or cause disease. In fact, investigators have already discovered that when the microbiome is in balance, these […]
Tags: #breast microbiome, #breast tissue, #Dr. Amy Degnim, #Dr. Tina Hieken, #News release, #Scientific Reports, bacteria, cancer, Center for Individualized Medicne, Dr. Nicholas Chia, mayo clinic, medical research
May 13, 2016
Mayo Clinic Joins the National Microbiome Initiative
By Jeff Briggs
The microbiome — which includes a community of trillions of bacteria living within our gut — has been called one of the next big frontiers in medicine. In recent years, research has shown that the bacteria in our gut plays a critical role in our overall health. The balance of good and bad bacteria can […]
Tags: center for individualized medicine, Dr. Heidi Nelson, Dr. Purna Kashyap, microbiome, Microbiome Clinic, Microbiome Program, National Microbiome Initiative, next generation sequencing, NGS, OSTP, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
January 14, 2016
By Jeff Briggs
You may love or hate all that happens in your gut, but understanding it will have a profound effect on your health. Mayo Clinic researchers in the Microbiome Program, one of the signature programs here at the Center for Individualized Medicine, are discovering that the human microbiome does much more for us — both good […]
Tags: c. dif, c. difficile, center for individualized medicine, Clostridium Difficile, colon cancer, Dr. Heidi Nelson, Dr. Purna Kashyap, fecal transplant, IBS, irritable bowel syndrome, microbiome, Microbiome Program
October 10, 2013
The Diet And Genome Microbiome Dance
By AJ Montpetit
A Mayo Clinic researcher, and collaborators, have shown that an individual’s diet and genomic makeup interact to determine which microbes exist and how they act in the host intestine. The study was modeled in germ-free knockout mice to mimic a genetic condition that affects 1 in 5 humans and increases the risk for digestive diseases. You […]
Tags: Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, center for individualized medicine, Crohns Disease, Fucose, Gastroenterologist, Gastroenterology, individualized medicine, mayo clinic, microbiome, Microbiome Program, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Purna Kashyap