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Chemistry World December 20, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Blame it on the Bacteria The bacteria in human guts could be partially responsible for obesity, report US researchers.
AskMen.com February 27, 2014 Patrick Owen	They've Discovered Something That Might Cure Obesity. But It's Seriously Gross. The eternal battle between good and bad bacteria in your gut is greatly affected by your diet, sleep, stress levels, and general health.
Bio-IT World April 2007 Kevin Davies	The Human Metabolome Project Motivated by the absence of a metabolomic equivalent of GenBank that could provide information and possibly even samples of metabolites, researchers secured $7.5 million funding from Genome Canada in 2005 for the "Human Metabolome Project."
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Scientific American February 28, 2005 Gunjan Sinha	The Diet That Fits With the understanding that some diseases such as obesity are metabolic syndromes in which multiple biochemical pathways interact to cause complex symptoms, metabolic testing offers a way to gauge health over a lifetime.
Chemistry World December 22, 2006 Victoria Gill	Metabolic Profiling Could Improve Animal Experiments Different types of rats respond to drugs in substantially different ways that can be tracked by metabolic analysis, according to scientists who say their finding has major implications for designing animal experiments.
Food Processing August 2013 Claudia O'Donnell	Probiotics - From Weight Management to Survival Skills New studies look at gut microbiota and obesity, while probiotic viability remains a goal.
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Chemistry World September 24, 2013 Jennifer Newton	Plants and microorganisms are the original synthetic chemists Greg Challis is a professor of chemical biology at the University of Warwick in the UK. Research in the Challis group encompasses the discovery, biosynthesis, bioengineering and mechanism of action of bioactive natural products.
Food Processing August 2006 Mark Anthony	Digestive Health's New Phase The gastrointestinal tract is one of the body's first lines of defense against disease. The more we understand and encourage healthy g.i. tract balance, the better we'll be able to protect ourselves from disease.
Chemistry World September 22, 2010 Manisha Lalloo	Salmonella's secret weapon US researchers have explained the chemical trick behind Salmonella bacteria's ability to outgrow other microbes living in the gut. The findings could lead to new drug treatments for the bacterial infection.
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Chemistry World April 22, 2013 Rebecca Brodie	Quicker checks for safer water Scientists in the Netherlands have developed and tested a new method that uses Raman spectroscopy to quickly identify harmful bacteria in drinking water.
Chemistry World August 28, 2009 Hayley Birch	A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down Modified gut bacteria that produce therapeutic agents in response to specific dietary sugars could be employed as novel treatments for bowel disorders.
Bio-IT World March 17, 2004	Pharma's Genomic Harvest How Pfizer plans to meet its goal of 20 new drug applications by 2006.
Chemistry World June 4, 2010 Manisha Lalloo	Antibacterial nanoparticles from bacteria Scientists have found that silver nanoparticles made using bacteria have better antibacterial properties than their chemically synthesised counterparts.
Salon.com October 25, 2001 Mark D. Uehling	Free drugs from your faucet How did tiny amounts of nearly every drug under the sun get into our drinking water -- and what are they doing to us?
Chemistry World November 2006 Derek Lowe	Opinion: In the Pipeline Is there a way to kill off bad drug candidates before companies invest valuable time and money and in them?
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Chemistry World February 27, 2013 Anthony King	PharmaSea to scour ocean depths for new drugs A new project will soon see scientists trawling the ocean bottoms for new bioactive compounds. Scientists on the PharmaSea mission will haul samples of mud and sediment from the deep sea, isolating marine organisms in the hunt for novel drug candidates.
Popular Mechanics April 8, 2009 Erin McCarthy	Fringe's Stomach Science is Part Fact, Part Fiction Fringe is back after a month-long hiatus. We get to the bottom of "Inner Child," an episode flirting with stomach science.
Food Processing April 2011 Mark Anthony	Soluble Fibers: Prebiotic Boon to Health Fiber is breaking out of its "wood-chip" image with its attraction as a prebiotic component and the functional gateway to digestive health.
Reactive Reports Issue 43 David Bradley	Health Benefits of a Chamomile Lawn Chamomile tea has been seen as a medicinal cure-all for centuries, but only now have UK researchers found evidence that the herbal tea has real benefits in a wide range of health ailments from the common cold to menstrual cramps.
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Chemistry World August 28, 2007 Tom Westgate	Repairing DNA Could Let Frozen Bacteria Survive for Millennia An international team of scientists believe they have strong evidence that bacteria trapped in permafrost are able to survive for hundreds of thousands of years by repairing their DNA.
Chemistry World December 3, 2010 Mike Brown	Arsenic sustains life A microorganism that uses the toxic element arsenic instead of essential nutrient phosphorus to sustain growth and life has been discovered by US researchers and could help us understand how life on Earth evolved.
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