All Yale University articles
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Our bacteria are more personal than we thought, study shows
The trillions of bacteria that call your body home appear to be unique to you, like a fingerprint, concludes a detailed study of the gut, mouth, nose and skin microbiomes of 86 people.
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Carbon limitation boosts survival of beneficial bacterium in the human gut
Yale researchers have discovered that one of the most abundant beneficial species found in the human gut showed an increase in colonization potential when experiencing carbon limitation — a finding that could yield novel clinical interventions to support a healthy gut.
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Scientists find two separate reservoirs of latent HIV in patients
Scientists have shown that, addition to HIV’s ability to lay dormant in the blood/lymphoid system, the virus may also lay dormant in the central nervous system, delineating another challenge in creating a cure.
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Two new bacterial species identified from patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Investigators at University Medical Center Utrecht and Yale University have isolated and characterized two new bacterial species from patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
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Simple nasal swab can provide early warning of emerging viruses
Testing for the presence of a single immune system molecule on nasal swabs can help detect stealthy viruses not identified in standard tests, Yale researchers have found.
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COVID-19 virus increases risk of other infections by disrupting normal mix of gut bacteria
Infection with Covid-19 can reduce the number of bacterial species in a patient’s gut, with the lesser diversity creating space for dangerous microbes to thrive, a new study has found.