The Gut-Brain Connection: Role of Microbial Messengers
People often experience “butterflies in their stomach” or a “gut-wrenching” feeling in the face of stressful situations, but what does this entail? Is it just our imagination, or can the...
The Gut-Brain Connection: Role of Microbial Messengers
People often experience “butterflies in their stomach” or a “gut-wrenching” feeling in the face of stressful situations, but what does this entail? Is it just our imagination, or can the...
Starving for Change: Microbiome Manipulation in the fight against Child Malnutrition
Natacha is a single mother, with three children, a farm, and a modest plot of land. It has been months since the last harvest of millet, and millet is all...
Feeding Your Mind
It’s 10 PM and you’re about to head home. Exhausted and frustrated (because all you needed was that one last repeat to work), an idea pops into your head -...
Connaught Symposium 2016
The Connaught Global Challenge award supports University of Toronto-based research with a focus on addressing the biggest challenges in the international community, and the GEMINI project is doing exactly that....
Mom’s Microbes Know Best
More than 100 years ago, French pediatrician Henry Tissier declared that babies were bacteria-free in the womb. Colonization, he claimed, began during the birthing process, not before. While bacterial transmission...
Gut Feeling: How Our Microbes Can Affect Mental Health
[caption id="attachment_1415" align="alignleft" width="300"] Image credit: Science Photo Library - SCIEPRO. Image courtesy of Getty Images.[/caption] The Nobel Prize-winning, immunology pioneer Élie Metchnikoff postulated over one hundred years ago that...
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