Recent Articles

• Hack Your Health: An Evening with Anjali Nayar and Dr. Sean Gibbons

   Posted on July 3, 2024

  Netflix’s “Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut” is a documentary that merged gut microbiome experts, four individuals – including a well-known hot dog eating champion – facing personal battles with gastrointestinal health, and a unique, effective visual method of “showing” the gut microbiome in action. 

• A New Path Toward Microbiome-Informed Precision Nutrition

   Posted on June 24, 2024

  ISB researchers have developed a novel way to simulate personalized, microbiome-mediated responses to diet. They use a microbial community-scale metabolic modeling (MCMM) approach to predict individual-specific short-chain fatty acid production rates in response to different dietary, prebiotic, and probiotic inputs.

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  ‘A Life Like No Other:’ Remembering Beloved ISB Professor Ilya Shmulevich

   Posted on June 5, 2024

  Devoted husband and father. Animal lover. Accomplished pianist. Avid cyclist. Compassionate human. Exceptional scientist. The ISB community mourns the loss of Professor Ilya Shmulevich, PhD, who died on April 13, 2024. He was 54 years old.