Microbiomes – News and Features

Funding enables further development of unique metagenomic technology and solutions for gut microbiota-related diseases affecting a large proportion of world population.

UChicago researchers team was able to unravel some of the mechanisms that regulate this weight gain.

Recent studies show marked changes in the composition of the intestinal bacteria in people with CD.

The findings provides new insights into skin health.

In this study researchers demonstrate how the metabolic effects of high carbohydrate diets and high fat diets relate to the mechanism of diet-induced obesity and its associated complications.

Broad scientists create molecular tools and applying standardized protocols, generating vast amounts of data to identify the microbiome's most elusive organisms for whole genome sequencing.

Genome sequencing creates first reference data for microbes living with healthy adults.

Genomics industry veteran will drive commercialization of the company’s highly scalable core technology for next generation genomic analysis.

Scientists are using decades of knowledge garnered from sequencing or “reading” the genetic codes of thousands of living things to now start writing new volumes in the library of life.

Company expects to announce phase 2 clinical data in first quarter of 2012.