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World-first research uses gut bacteria to improve health of obese teenagers

World-first research uses gut bacteria to improve health of obese teenagers

by lwan604 | Jan 14, 2021 | Healthy Weight, Media release, Updates

New Zealand research has shown how gut bacteria from healthy, lean people can be used to improve the health of teenagers who are clinically obese. Obese Auckland teenagers who swallowed capsules of the gut bacteria of healthy peers reduced a condition called...
Helping children read and succeed earns top award for A Better Start’s deputy director

Helping children read and succeed earns top award for A Better Start’s deputy director

by lwan604 | Dec 2, 2020 | Media release

Decades of work aimed at improving children’s learning success and wellbeing has earned A Better Start’s deputy director Professor Gail Gillon the University of Canterbury’s highest research honour. Professor Gillon is the winner of the UC 2020 Research Medal, awarded...

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