{"id":94841,"date":"2019-08-15T11:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/tweaking-gut-bacteria-in-mice-reduces-colorectal-cancer-risk"},"modified":"2019-08-15T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:22:26","slug":"tweaking-gut-bacteria-in-mice-reduces-colorectal-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/tweaking-gut-bacteria-in-mice-reduces-colorectal-cancer-risk","title":{"rendered":"Tweaking Gut Bacteria in Mice Reduces Colorectal Cancer Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tweaking-gut-bacteria-in-mice-reduces-colorectal-cancer-risk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, we want to highlight a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/jem.rupress.org\/content\/early\/2019\/07\/26\/jem.20181939\">study<\/a> in which a team of researchers from UT Southwestern demonstrates how adjusting the gut microbiome in mice lowers the occurrence of cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the gut microbiome?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The microbiome describes a varied community of bacteria, archaea, eukarya, and viruses that inhabit our gut. The four bacterial phyla of Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, and Actinobacteria make up around 98% of the intestinal microbiome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we want to highlight a recent study in which a team of researchers from UT Southwestern demonstrates how adjusting the gut microbiome in mice lowers the occurrence of cancer. What is the gut microbiome? The microbiome describes a varied community of bacteria, archaea, eukarya, and viruses that inhabit our gut. The four bacterial phyla [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}