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  • 2025 highlights in biotic science
    This special year-end episode, which covers 2025’s highlights in biotic science, features three of the academic scientists who serve on the ISAPP board of directors: Prof. Maria Marco PhD from University of California, Davis (USA), Prof. Sarah Lebeer PhD from University of Antwerp (Belgium), and Dr. Gabriel Vinderola PhD from National University of Litoral (Argentina)….

  • Planning a Biotics Study? New Publication Recommends Adding Diet as a Variable
    Both dietary patterns and specific foods are known to affect the digestive tract environment, either directly or indirectly (for example, by shaping the gut microbiome), and are therefore of interest as potential factors in the response of an individual to a biotic intervention.

  • Statistical considerations for the design of randomized, controlled trials for probiotics and prebiotics
    By Prof. Daniel Tancredi, UC Davis, USA The best evidence for the efficacy of probiotics or prebiotics generally comes from…

  • What is a strain in microbiology and why does it matter?
    By Prof. Colin Hill, Microbiology Department and APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Ireland At the recent ISAPP meeting in…

  • Improving the quality of microbiome studies – STORMS
    By Mary Ellen Sanders, PhD, ISAPP Executive Science Officer In mid-March I attended the Gut Microbiota for Health annual meeting….

  • Do new product formats need new clinical trials?
    By Marla Cunningham​, Metagenics Global R&D Innovation Manager and 2021 ISAPP Industry Advisory Committee representative Let’s assume a hypothetical clinical…

  • Designing Probiotic Clinical Trials: What Placebo Should I Use?
    By Daniel J. Merenstein, MD, Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Director of Research Programs, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington…

  • New Probiotic and Prebiotic Society Among Ibero-American Countries
    By Prof. Gabriel Vinderola PhD,  Associate Professor of Microbiology at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering from the National University of…

  • How some probiotic scientists are working to address COVID-19
    By ISAPP board of directors With the global spread of COVID-19, the scientific community has experienced an unusual interruption. Across…

  • Connecting with the ISAPP community: Continuing to advance the science of probiotics and prebiotics
    By Mary Ellen Sanders PhD, executive science officer, ISAPP On behalf of the ISAPP board of directors, I am reaching…