Antibiotic Treatment Reshapes the Vaginal Microbiome

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The microbes that live in the vagina constitute to the vaginal microbiome (or microbiota). New research from the lab of Jacques Ravel at the University of Maryland shows that Chlamydia infection is associated with a different composition of the vaginal microbiome compared with the microbiome of healthy patients. Additionally, the vaginal microbiome of the patients … Read more

Worth a Closer Look: April 2019

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As I was selecting the articles related to proteomics and disease, I kept a running list of those that piqued my interest. These range in topic and are not all related to proteomics. Most are related to medicine or human disease. Hopefully, I will have time to take a closer look at them all and … Read more

A Closer Look: 10 March 2019

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A list of articles classified by Nancy R. Gough as good, valuable contributions or not so valuable contributions to the scientific literature.

Gut Microbes in Graft-Versus-Host Disease

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Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is occurs in people who have received bone marrow or blood stem cell transplants from donors (allogenic transplants). The donated cells replace the stem cells that make the cells of the immune system and red blood cells in patients with leukemias or lymphomas or various types of bone marrow diseases, blood disorders, … Read more