The human large intestine is home to the largest and most diverse group of bacteria in the human body. These bacteria play an important role in maintaining human health, fermenting plant fibres and other non-digestible carbohydrates, and Rowett research has shown that compounds released by bacterial metabolism in the gut have direct…
Increased life expectancy and an ageing UK population can require better diagnosis and management of neurodegenerative disorders. The gut can play a key role in relaying signals to the brain, and research has shown that diet is important for certain gut bacteria which may have consequences for brain function.
The Rowett’s Ageing Gut-Brain…
The food we eat feeds our microbes, gives us energy and nutrition, and keeps us healthy. The choices we make about our food clearly affects our health, but also has a huge effect on the world around us. We need to make more effort to choose correctly.
Sometimes it…
On Wednesday 6th March 2019 Karen Scott visited the Barony Mill to assist in dehulling and flaking and flouring some barley that has been grown to use in a human intervention study run from the Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen.
This particular barley variety was grown at the James…
Since we have realized that we carry around more microbial than human cells and that these microbial inhabitants are important to maintain our health, searching for the bacterial species that are implicated in causing disease has become the holy grail of microbiology. However, to understand which bacteria are unnaturally present…
Since the discovery of penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928, antibiotics have saved millions of lives, and have rightly been described as wonder drugs. Yet since the late 1990s we have become increasingly aware that bacterial resistance to antibiotics is threatening their very use. We can no longer be…
