Adam’s Journal A friend’s toddler recently had some long-lasting gastrointestinal trouble. His pediatrician ordered a stool sample to rule out foodborne illness. Although he didn’t have a bacterial infection, the results showed that some of the beneficial bacteria in his gut were either missing or significantly reduced. How does this happen? And how do you […]
microbes
Are we too clean for our own good?
Mounting research suggests our quest to be clean might make children sicker, not healthier.
OMRF opens state’s first germ-free mouse research facility
The center offers researchers the ability to raise and study mice in an environment free of germs and microbes.
OMRF welcomes two new scientists
Drs. David Jones and Umesh Deshmukh bring new research to the foundation.
Deshmukh, Umesh
Coming Clean
With OMRF’s new germ-free facility, researchers can study the role of microbes in human health We are outnumbered. For every human cell in our bodies, 10 others belonging to microorganisms reside in our mouths, on our skin and in our digestive tracts. To study the role these hordes of tiny hitchhikers—which we commonly think of […]
