316: Food Addiction and the Gut Microbiome

<p dir="ltr">TWiM describes experiments to explore gut microbiota signatures of vulnerability to food addiction in mice and humans, and how a phage tail-like protein suppresses competitors in populations of bacteria of plants.</p> <p>Hosts: <a href="https://twitter.com/profvrr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vincent Racaniello</a>, <a href= "http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/immunology/Faculty/schmidt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Schmidt</a>, <a href= "https://biology.wustl.edu/people/petra-levin" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Petra Levin</a> and <a href= "https://twitter.com/umichmichele?lang=en" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Michele Swanson</a>.</p> <p>Become a <a href="http://www.microbe.tv/contribute" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">patron</a> of TWiM.</p> <h2><strong>Links for this episode</strong></h2> <ul> <li><a href= "https://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2024/05/17/gutjnl-2023-331445" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gut microbiota and food addiction</a> (Prob...