In 1900 gastric cancerwas the leading cause of cancer death in the USA and other countries. This cancer has been decreased with the disappearance of the commensal stomach bacterium, which has been blamed to be the cause for gastric cancer. This is actually good news, but here comes the bad news right away: ...

MyMicrobiome is chairman and reports on the first microbiome-cosmetics-expert seminar hosted by ICADA, the European Cosmetics Association.

Scientific Summary Microbiome Discovery and Development Congress June, Berlin. We heard a lot of interesting talks on the status of microbiome development in different research fields which I´d like to summarize for you here. One main topic was the fecal microbiota transplantation …

In May 2017 the Wallen-Russell’s published a review article about the skins microbiome. In this review they summarized publications which are related to skin health and the skins microbiome. They came to the conclusion, that the higher the diversity of the skins microbiome is, the healthier is the skin.

Microbiome science is very fresh and scientists all over the world try to understand how we can manipulate our microbiome in the best way for our health. Something I found very interesting was a totally different approach to the understanding of the microbiome by the Biophysicist Olaf Larsen, ...

Analysis of the microbiome of patients with autoimmune diseases such as MS, type I diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis has shown an altered microbiome in all diseases.

A controversial discussion is running among microbiome scientists. Is the womb sterile? For more than a century we have assumed that the placenta is sterile.