Microbes are widely recognized to be vital to host health. This new consensus rests, in part,
on experiments showing how hosts malfunction when microbes are removed. More and …

The gut microbiota plays a key role in host health and disease, particularly through their
interactions with the immune system. Intestinal homeostasis is dependent on the symbiotic …

Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis is a prevalent member of the gut microbiota of
breastfed infants. In this study, the effects of human breastmilk-derived B. longum subsp …

Childhood undernutrition is a major global health burden that is only partially resolved by
nutritional interventions. Both chronic and acute forms of child undernutrition are …

Advances in genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics have revealed associations between
specific microbiota species in health and disease. However, the precise mechanism (s) of …

Several strategies, programs and policies have long been developed and implemented to
alleviate child malnutrition in sub-Saharan African countries. However, stunting and wasting …

Interactions between gut microbiome and host immune system are fundamental to
maintaining the intestinal mucosal barrier and homeostasis. At the host-gut microbiome …

Probiotics hold great potential for treating metabolic diseases such as obesity. Given the
complex and multifactorial nature of these diseases, research on probiotic combination with …

Background Early postnatal life is a critical period of rapid growth in mammals, heavily
reliant on adequate nutrition. Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) during this window can lead …

The intestinal microbiota of humans includes a highly diverse range of bacterial species. All
these bacteria possess a cell wall, composed primarily of the macromolecule peptidoglycan …