Swette Center Good News Updates, January – April 2019

Krajmalnik-Brown Featured in Ask A Biologist Podcast In April, Dr. Rosy was featured in the Microbes Living Inside Us podcast. Podcast Notes: On this program we talk a lot about cells. In particular plant, animal, and microbial cells. But did you know there is a world of microbes that make their home inside and on… Continue reading Swette Center Good News Updates, January – April 2019

Study led by ASU’s Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, Dae-Wook Kang and James Adams Demonstrates Long-Term Benefits of Microbiota Transfer Therapy

ASU Now and Scientific Reports feature a new study, Long-Term Benefit of Microbiota Transfer Therapy in Autism Symptoms and Gut Microbiota, that describes the long-term benefits of fecal transplants in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The study was led by ASU researchers Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, James Adams, and Dae-Wook Kang (who is now faculty at the… Continue reading Study led by ASU’s Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, Dae-Wook Kang and James Adams Demonstrates Long-Term Benefits of Microbiota Transfer Therapy

ASU’s ASK A BIOLOGIST features Dr. Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown’s career in MENDING WITH MICROBES article

ASU’s Ask a Biologist website features science articles, activities, games, interviews, podcasts and so much more that make science accessible and exciting for students, teachers, and the general public.  The website recently published an article called Mending with Microbes that describes the good things that microbes do for us and how people partner with them… Continue reading ASU’s ASK A BIOLOGIST features Dr. Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown’s career in MENDING WITH MICROBES article

Krajmalnik-Brown Lab fecal transplant research featured in Science News for Students

Kids with autism often have stomach problems. Poop transplants appear able to help. KICSIICSI/ISTOCKPHOTO

The article “Gut ‘bug’ transplants can bring kids with autism lasting benefits; these fecal transplants improved both behavioral problems and tummy troubles,” featured in the August 24, 2018 edition of Science News for Students,  explains autism, clinical trials, and how the Krajmalnik-Brown Lab and collaborators found that good microbes help to alleviate gastrointestinal and behavioral… Continue reading Krajmalnik-Brown Lab fecal transplant research featured in Science News for Students

Krajmalnik-Brown Lab Collaboration Featured in 2018 Springer Nature CHANGE THE WORLD Initiative

Microbiota Transfer Therapy alters gut ecosystem and improves gastrointestinal and autism symptoms: an open-label study, by Dae-Wook Kang et al and published in Microbome, was selected to appear as a must-read article as part of the 2018 Springer Nature Change the World initiative.

Dr. Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown serves on National Academies Board that Releases Publication

Dr. Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown was invited to serve on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Division on Earth and Life Studies; Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology; Board on Life Sciences; Committee on Advancing Understanding of the Implications of Environmental-Chemical Interactions with the Human Microbiome. This group recently released the following publication: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and… Continue reading Dr. Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown serves on National Academies Board that Releases Publication

Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown and Daewook Kang host Korean PBS (EBS) to share Fecal Microbiota Transplant study results

Korean PBS interviewed Dr. Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, Dr. Daewook Kang, and Dr. James Adams to discuss promising FMT research results featured in a three-part YouTube series, below. Title: 미생물 인간 (roughly translates to “Microbiome Human”)