316: Food Addiction and the Gut Microbiome
TWiM describes experiments to explore gut microbiota signatures of vulnerability to food addiction in mice and humans, and how a phage tail-like protein suppresses competitors in populations of bacteria of plants.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson.
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Links for this episode- Gut microbiota and food addiction (Probiotics)
- Blautia may have probiotic properties (Gut Microbes)
- Blautia wexlerae ameliorates obesity and type 2 diabetes (Nat Commun)
- Phage tail–like bacteriocin suppresses competitors (Science)
- What is a bacteriocin? (Front Micro)
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TWiM describes experiments to explore gut microbiota signatures of vulnerability to food addiction in mice and humans, and how a phage tail-like protein suppresses competitors in populations of bacteria of plants.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson.
Become a patron of TWiM.
Links for this episode- Gut microbiota and food addiction (Probiotics)
- Blautia may have probiotic properties (Gut Microbes)
- Blautia wexlerae ameliorates obesity and type 2 diabetes (Nat Commun)
- Phage tail–like bacteriocin suppresses competitors (Science)
- What is a bacteriocin? (Front Micro)
- Take the TWiM Listener survey!
Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to twim@microbe.tv
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