Gubra will be doing a talk about “Best animal models of NASH” and will bring novel poster data on our diet-induced and biopsy-confirmed ob/ob-NASH mouse model - now with advanced Fibrosis (F3) at baseline at the European Association for the Study...

Here’s a link to a recent Time magazine article on the microbiome:

http://time.com/5360407/microbiome-diet-gut-health/

It references work by our customer, Krzysztof Czaja:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5428886/pdf/nihms858064.pdf

Incredible study by Dr. John Speakman et al. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Aberdeen. RDI scientist helped formulate 29 different OpenSource purified diets that varied in fat, carbohydrate and protein. Click links below to...

Our invited paper entitled “Effects of Rodent Diet Choice and Fiber Type on Data Interpretation of Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Disease Research” is available online as an epub and was made open access by Current Protocols in Toxicology.

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In last month’s Nature Medicine, Dan Engber wrote a nice article about the efforts to standardize high-fat diets to make rodents obese, and the pitfalls of a ‘one diet fits all’ approach. He also points out the lack of attention that is generally...

Research Diets formulated diets for the Gewirtz lab referenced in this article http://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/science/food-fiber-microbiome-inflammation.html

Diets used to induce metabolic disease are generally high in fat and refined carbohydrates and importantly, are usually made with refined, purified ingredients. However, researchers will often use a low fat grain-based (GB) diet containing...

A recently published review article summarizes multiple studies in this area and has revealed some startling observations.

Are you familiar with the difference between a grain based chow and a purified ingredient diet? RDI's Senior Scientist Dr.Michael Pellizzon talks about differences between these two types of diets and how they can influence the intestinal health...

If your study involves in vivo imaging using fluorescence technologies, it's very important that the 'background' or 'noise' signal be as low as possible. Unfortunately, many commonly used grain-based chow diets contain chlorophyll, which fluoresces at 680 nm and can therefore interfere with the detection of fluorophores. The result is that the GI tract of the animal will fluoresce and your signal of interest may be hard or impossible to quantify.