Background Bifidobacterium longum is a common member of the human gut microbiota and
is frequently present at high numbers in the gut microbiota of humans throughout life, thus …

Background Introducing complementary foods other than breastmilk or formula acutely
changes the infant gut microbiota composition. However, it is unknown whether the timing of …

Bifidobacteria, which commonly inhabit the primate gut, are beneficial contributors to host
wellbeing. Anatomical differences and natural habitat allow an arrangement of primates into …

Folate (the general term for all bioactive forms of vitamin B 9) plays a crucial role in the
evolutionary highly conserved one-carbon (1C) metabolism, a network including central …

Resistant starch (RS) reaches the large intestine largely intact, where it is fermented by the
gut microbiota, resulting in the production of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) that have …

2015/0093473 Al 2015/0098954 A1 2015/0132263 Al 2015/0291961 A1 2015/0315576 A1
2015/0353901 A1 2016/0017366 A1 2016/0024510 A1 2016/0186213 A1 2016/0289700 …

Bifidobacterium has a diverse host range and shows several beneficial properties to the
hosts. Many species should have co-evolved with their hosts, but the phylogeny of …

Bifidobacterium breve represents one of the most abundant bifidobacterial species in the
gastro-intestinal tract of breast-fed infants, where their presence is believed to exert …

The invention relates to the methods for modifying the methylation pattern of bacteriophage
DNA and phagemid DNA and to methods for selective killing of bacteria using lysogenic …

The market of probiotic foods and supplements is growing rapidly but frequently the
commercialized products are not compliant with their labels in terms of claimed probiotic …