Bite Sized Update! – Can your microbiome be performance enhancing?
Your microbiome may actually help increase athletic performance. “a highly collaborative team of researchers led by Scheiman and Church at the Wyss Institute and HMS,...
Category : Microbiome/Genomics
The most significant technology in the history of mankind!
That’s the short answer to “what is Synthetic Biology?”!!! Why is Synthetic Biology so important? Synthetic biology is a massively flexible tool. It’s based on...
The Animal Empire Strikes Back!
Why is this significant? It’s been said that “cows are not getting any better”, but what if they are? Technology has seemed to favour high...
What if cattle didn’t produce methane?
Why is this significant? Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by industrial animal farming are a major concern and figure heavily in the arguments for cell-based and...
Featured 5 Technologies That Will Dominate the Future of Food for Decades!
Most top trends look at consumers and the market. However, I want to look instead at the underlying new technologies driving the Future of Food...
Don’t kill your microbiome!
Why is this significant? Immune diseases and psychological issues are on the rise in modern urbanised and urbanising countries. The study of the effect of the...
Most significant microbiome research of 2018
Why is this significant? The microbiome is either proven or thought to be responsible for everything from disease to obesity to our moods. Given this, the...
Bicheng Yang – BGI
I talk to Bicheng Yang of BGI about the future of personalised nutrition and how it will be influenced by advances in genomics, the microbiome...
Personalised nutrition and the microbiome
Why is this significant? Personalised nutrition is the future of human health and microbiome analysis is a major part of this field. It’s a fast...
A Noah’s Ark of bacteria proposed.
A microbial “Noah’s Ark” is being proposed to protect our microbiome diversity. This proposal is made in an article published recently in Science magazine. Apparently “Western...