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Home - OMRF News - Archives for microbiome

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A Mistake That Paid Off

Checking the wrong box changed the future of OMRF’s newest rheumatologist.

OMRF discoveries reshape understanding of gut microbiome

October 22, 2020

OMRF scientists have redefined how the gut microbiome operates and how our bodies coexist with some of the 100 trillion bacteria that make it up.

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OMRF welcomes new rheumatologist

August 3, 2020

As a physician-scientist, Matlock Jeffries will maintain a lab focused on osteoarthritis and will see patients in the foundation’s Rheumatology Center of Excellence.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: aci, arthritis, care, center, center of excellence, clinic, clinical, clinical immunology, epigenetics, jeffries, matlock, microbiome, oa, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, osteoarthritis, OUHSC, patient, rheumatologist, rheumatology, scientist-news

Are we too clean for our own good?

June 25, 2019

Mounting research suggests our quest to be clean might make children sicker, not healthier.

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OMRF launches new genetics research program

April 1, 2019

The new Genes and Human Disease Research Program will broaden OMRF’s investigation into genetic mechanisms in various diseases.

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OMRF opens state’s first germ-free mouse research facility

October 13, 2017

The center offers researchers the ability to raise and study mice in an environment free of germs and microbes.

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