MIT scientists have discovered a new class of compact DNA modifying systems called OMEGAs that naturally shuffle DNA in bacteria and can be engineered to work in human cells.
The following press release was issued today by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Researchers from MIT, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at
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First of its kind study indicates prebiotic can reduce anxiety A first of its kind clinical trial has shown the ability of Biotis GOS, the galacto-oligosaccharide prebiotic ingredient by FrieslandCampina Ingredients, to reduce self-reported anxiety in young women.
While previous animal studies have suggested a significant impact of the gut microbiota on the development and maturation of brain networks that underlie emotional behaviour, fewer studies have been conducted on humans.
The current research team, including an employee of FrieslandCampina, conducted a four-week trial involving 64 women, aged 18–25, with self-reported anxiety. The women were blindly randomised to receive a daily dose of Biotis
Perhaps one of the least-anticipated and most remarkable impacts of coronavirus has been the resurgence of a communal spirit at the macro and micro level in the UK. Millions of Britons observed restrictions to their daily lives to while hundreds of thousands volunteered to work on the frontlines of the pandemic or support people in their communities who needed help to make it through the darkest months of lockdown. That sense of solidarity was also realised at the micro level with individual streets up seeing neighbours reach out to one another and helping them through the crisis. In this way, the pandemic supercharged something that prominent figures in Kingston Borough like Robin Hutchinson, who directs acclaimed Tolworth collective The Community Brain, had carefully been nurturing before Covid-19 arrived.