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2020
June 30, 2020: The Smell of COVID-19: All infections have a distinct odor signature and so does COVID-19.
May 21, 2020: Vaccines: Precision & Performance: Vaccine can be personalized based on individual's genomic makeup.
April 26, 2020: Reopening communities: Last month our world has been turned upside down, but we'll soon be slowly reopening.
April 13, 2020: Genes and Proteins of SARS-CoV-2: Scientists worked at speed to make SARS-CoV-2 gene and protein information available at record time.
March 7, 2020: Work less, play more?: Rethinking cities and villages for the future.
March 2, 2020: Sorry, I didn't quite get that: The holy grail of AI researchers is to fully understand human languages. What's the state of the art in 2020?
February 19, 2020: On human & robot friends: Research shows that our social circle is at its greatest when we are in early 20s.
February 10, 2020: Microbiome-based diagnostics: The progress in developing useful diagnostic applications based on microbiome testing is still behind expectations. Nevertheless, microbiome-based diagnostic and therapeutic applications are possible and will be the next step.
January 13, 2020: Gender: Are there differences in microbiomes important for our study?
2019
December 21, 2019: Flu season 2019-2020: This year's influenza season got an early start. Is the flu shot working?2019
December 17, 2019: Age - a truly confounding factor?: MEBO is a complex condition and while some of the cases seem simpler, non-linear analysis approaches are better equipped to handle the task. And this creates new challenges regarding the existence of confounding factors.
December 4, 2019: The Ann Karenina Principle: Sutterella: Sutterella group is the largest cohort identified in our study.
November 30, 2019: Concluding MEBO-uBIOME Study: We are very close to concluding our clinical trial NCT03582826 according to the pre-specified protocol.
October 30, 2019: Correlations and Interpretatios: We all know that “correlation does not imply causation.” But - as there's a grain of truth in every joke - seemingly unrelated factors could always be related on some level.
September 4, 2019: The Anna Karenina Principle: Alloprevotella: The Anna Karenina principle (AKP), in the context of metabolic disorders, means that an uncompensated deficiency in any one of important enzymes, or presence of any one of pathogenic microorganisms, dooms the person to having the MEBO/PATM symptoms.
August 29, 2019: Identifying subtypes of a stigmatized medical condition: Some conditions - such as obesity, depression and functional odor disorders - come with a social stigma. Understanding the etiology of these conditions helps to avoid stereotypes and find remedies.
August 28, 2019: Saving the Pond: We need to maintain ponds and lakes for their beauty, for their cultural significance, for next generations of people and other inhabitants of the Earth.
August 19, 2019: The Delicate Balance: Epulopiscium: bacteria that can wreak havoc in the gut.
August 14, 2019: Friends and Stars: Social networks are inundated with fake user profiles and untrustworthy users. Scientists from and academia are developing algorithms to calculate "trust index" and identify fakes, but reality is more complex than existing algorithms.
August 5, 2019: TMA microbiome: Your abilities to produce Trimethylamine N-Oxide may be encoded in your microbiome
July 21, 2019: How well are you feeding your microbiome? A look at dietary patterns among participants of NCT03582826
June 24, 2019: Does blood type matter?: 6/24/2019 Blood group types influence bacteria in our gut
April 1, 2019: Technologies we wish existed. Science fiction stories and April fool jokes often describe speculative technology we wish existed in our world.
2018
November 28, 2018: Preliminary results of our Microbiome study (see also uBiome Press release)
May 7, 2018 Preparing to Launch our new Microbiome study (see also MEBO awarded grant from uBiome)
April 1, 2018 Technology Funnies and Futures. Some April Fool's jokes come true, some have the potential to be prophetic or ominous, and some products we really wish existed.
March 14, 2018 Microbes of anti-social odor. In recent years, microbes responsible for localized malodors have been mapped by using next generation sequencing approaches. However, intestinal microbes responsible for systemic malodor remain to be identified.
February 22, 2018 Crowdsourcing Personalized Medicine Healthcare is evolving from one-size-fits-all to personalized, from reactive to preventive, from intuitive to data-driven, from paternalistic to participatory. Can crowdsourcing facilitate this transformation?
January 23, 2018 Technology 2018 Recent years were filled with groundbreaking projects and the stars may be aligning for something really big, driven by advances in software and hardware.
January 15, 2018 Identifying subtypes of a stigmatized medical condition Some conditions - such as obesity, depression and functional odor disorders - come with a social stigma.
2017
November 30, 2017 Fine-Tuning Human Networks Every intelligent entity - whether human or machine - depends not only on the configurations of its neurons, but also connections between itself and others entities, optimized for efficient exchange of information. Hence, better human networks providing training and feedback from others will lead to both smarter humans and better AI.
October 5, 2017 The Evolution of Test. Will artificial Intelligence take over, testing software, hardware and interviewing people for the AI-proof jobs? Will the Internet of Things and Wearables improve the assessment of people's health, educational progress and behavior?..
September 10, 2017 Bringing Health and Happiness Cute animals are perfect distraction from our hectic lives
June 21, 2017 Do you want AI with that? When you hear about artificial intelligence, you may picture Ex Machina or Siri and recall flashy news headlines. But there are many other new ideas out there...
May 22, 2017: Unraveling the Mysteries of Mischievous Microbiome Science explains why some people smell worse than others despite keeping themselves squeaky clean. The body is crawling with bacteria increasing the risk for diseases for which we have unreserved levels of sympathy. It can also lead to unlikable conditions such as unpredictable and embarrassing outbursts of body odor - so bad it ruins social lives and careers. But there is no cure for metabolic body odor...
May 19, 2017: Community-led research discovers links between elusive symptoms and clinical tests BiorXiv DOI: 10.1101/139014
May 8, 2017: Let those who never smelled bad cast the first stone Analysis of our metabolism is crucial to comprehending the responses of our genes and microbes to the stresses of daily life, and to elucidating the causes and consequences of health and disease. We applied metabolomics approach to to an elusive condition that has always evaded diagnosis: socially and psychologically distressing odors that occur without a known or apparent cause ...
May 1, 2017: Sharing the Future with Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence has reached a buzzword utopia as it seems everyone is talking about self-driving cars, delivery drones and virtual assistants with human-like "intelligence." Some believe this new era of AI will make the American Dream universally accessible, enabling early retirement in bucolic settings. Others are concerned about a greater inequality created by a jobless future...
March 31, 2017: Giving the Underserved the Care they Deserve Artificial intelligence has reached a buzzword utopia as it seems everyone is talking about self-driving cars, delivery drones and virtual assistants with human-like "intelligence." Some believe this new era of AI will make the American Dream universally accessible, enabling early retirement in bucolic settings. Others are concerned about a greater inequality created by a jobless future...
February 12, 2017: More than Meets the Eye Eyeglasses are almost as old as the civilization itself. They have not changed much since Benjamin Franklin's bifocals in the 18th century. Nor were they made obsolete by laser surgery and contacts. Still, eyeglass technology leaves much to be desired...
December 29, 2016: Believe in Miracles and Yourself End of the year is a very special time as Holiday lights melt away our inner Grinch and we start to believe in miracles and new beginnings...
November 18, 2016: Who is afraid of IBS? I don’t mean to brag, but I’ve got irritable bowel syndrome, says a character of a sitcom. Irritable bowel syndrome used to be a rare condition, but became a problem of epidemic proportions, until the disease "came out of the closet". Then Internet searches and doctor visits started to dwindle down and less than halved compared to earlier decades. Is IBS no longer a problem?...
November 7, 2016: What the future will hold Elections are bad for your health. More than half of Americans, independently of their party preference, are stressed about upcoming elections, especially the oldest and the youngest voters. Social media is one of the major factors making this stress even worse...
October 31, 2016: What we learn from Halloween What can we learn from Halloween? A lot, judging by numerous scientific studies and less scientific surveys....
August 21, 2016: The future of Brain, Brawn and Beauty In the future all humans will be tall and beautiful look-alikes, as in GATTACA. Or they will split into frail beauties and sturdy beasts...
June 12, 2016: Seeing through the Skin Human skin emits light (albeit the glow is extremely weak) and a wide variety of small molecules that may be sometimes "sniffed" by dogs or even other humans. These chemicals tell a story about our health and wellness, things we eat and drink, touch and breathe. ...
May 13, 2016: Friday the 13th Our health depends on a multitude of environmental factors, day in and day out. And today is a special day - Friday the 13th. How should you feel on this day?...
April 27, 2016: Food to Restore a Heart We know that diet, exercise and low-stress life will keep the heart healthy. But sometimes things happen that are beyond our control. Thanks to more coordinated, faster emergency response and improved treatment, heart attacks aren't as deadly as they used to be. But survivors still face a substantial risk of further cardiovascular events. How to restore after a heart attack and prevent another one? ...
April 1, 2016: Technology, Dreams and Jokes As Sigmund Freud suggested, jokes often expose unconscious desires. Perhaps the technologies listed below, too, have a grain of our desires wrapped in a smile? ...
April 1, 2016: IoT marches on: Key Fool's day Announcements Technology keeps marching ahead. And the future gets smarter with the Internet of Things. Here are a few announcements made today, on April 1 2016 ...
February 17, 2016: Personalized Metabolomics While genomic data and proteomic analyses do not tell the whole story of what might be happening inside our body, metabolic profiling can give a snapshot of how the body works, providing a glimpse into the chemistry between us and our microbiomes ...
January 17, 2016: From Limping to Leaping Anno bisesto, anno funesto” (leap year, gloomy year), say Italians. “Leap year was ne’er a good sheep year.” agrees an old Scottish proverb. "Високосный год "Урожай" соберет" (leap year will gather the "Harvest") warns a Russian saying implying that there will be plenty of disasters - calamities, catastrophes and cataclysms. But usually there are not...
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