Some more bio news Incoming!!!
This article highlights the new findings that consumption of food enhances the activity of the immune system, presumably to allow for greater protection against pathogens that might be consumed with the food. The research also finds that this increased activity of the immune system will occur at times when the body expects/anticipates consumption of food, highlighting the importance of regular eating patters in maximising immune activity at the time of eating.
This article summarises a new aproach being made in the efforts to support honey bee populations. Researches have genetically modified bacteria of the bee's microbiome such that these bacteria produce RNA strands complimentary to RNAs cruicial to the functioning of various pathogens (the conplimentary RNA will bind to these integral pathogen RNA and inhibit its function). These genetically modified bacteria are then re-introduced to the microbiome of the bee's where they were shown to continuously produce these complimentatary RNAs and inhibit the activity of the pathogens within lab tests. While this aproach looks promising, it is highlighted that this method still needs to be investigated within operating hives before its efficacy in boosting bee numbers can be characterised.
These days bacteria within out microbiomes are increasinly being understood as cruical in maintaing various aspects of health, however
this article here highlights another potentially important addition to our microbiome: the algae Chlamydomonas. This unicellular eukaryote apears to help various aspects of gasrointestinal health such as diarrhea, gas and bloating.