Congratulations to Federico Rey (bacteriology) who is part of a research team that recently received a new grant from the Fondation Leducq. The project, “Gut Microbiome as a Target for the Treatment of Cardiometabolic Diseases, ” is part of the 2017 Transatlantic Networks of Excellence Program, which promotes collaborative work between Europe and North America. Coordinated by …
The microbiome is now considered to be as important to human health as the genome. For social and population health scientists, research on the human microbiome may help identify biological mediators that link social conditions to health and mortality. However, research has been hindered by human studies that did not have randomly selected samples and …
Are friends more genetically similar to one another than to randomly selected peers? Humans tend to form social relationships with others who resemble them, and recent research has evaluated the possibility that unobserved genotypes may play an important role in the creation of homophilous relationships. Researchers Benjamin Domingue (Stanford), Daniel Belsky (Duke), CDHA affiliate Jason Fletcher (public …
On April 12, the La Follette School of Public Affairs hosted the 2018 Spring Symposium. Co-sponsored by CDHA, the Center for Demography and Ecology, and the Institute for Research on Poverty, the event examined the ethical and policy-related challenges that have stemmed from recent breakthroughs in research on the human microbiome, genetics, and the human …
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, accounting for 60 to 80 percent of cases, and is the only one of the top 10 causes of death in the US with no way to prevent, cure, or impede its progression. People with a family history of AD are known to have an …