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29 Aug 2024
Largest survey of microbes in food to date
The first comprehensive database of food metagenomes has been developed by the EU-funded MASTER project; the associated paper ‘Analysis of 2,500 food metagenomes reveals unexplored microbial diversity and links with the human microbiome’ is published today in the prestigious journal Cell. The curatedFoodMetagenomicData (cFMD) database is a milestone database of metagenomes (the collective term for all of the genomic material from all of the microorganisms in an environment) from food that will enable DNA sequencing technologies to operate at their peak potential, helping researchers tackle global challenges, like food waste and antimicrobial resistance, while increasing food safety.
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27 Aug 2024
APC and Adiso Announce Groundbreaking Research Highlighting ADS024
APC and Adiso Therapeutics, Inc. have a new publication “LPA3 agonist-producing Bacillus velezensis ADS024 is efficacious in multiple neuroinflammatory disease models” by Acton, et al., in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, the official journal of the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society (PNIRS).
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13 Aug 2024
APC and UCC's School of Medicine welcomes Dr. Sebastian Schmidt as a new Principal Investigator
APC Microbiome Ireland (APC), a world-leading SFI Research Centre based at University College Cork (UCC), is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. Sebastian Schmidt, an outstanding computational biologist with a global reputation for pioneering advancements in microbiome data analysis, as a new Principal Investigator.
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13 Aug 2024
APC and ISAPP, a meeting of minds
The 2024 ISAPP (International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics) Annual Meeting was held in Cork from the 9th to the 11th July. The choice of Cork was largely based on the presence of such a large cohort of microbiome, probiotic and prebiotics researchers at APC Microbiome Ireland, a world leading SFI Research Centre.
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