Siddarth Venkatesh

TL;DR: These preclinical findings provide evidence that gut microbiota immaturity is causally related to childhood undernutrition and reveal that specific beneficial microbes could potentially be exploited to resolve undernutrition syndromes.

TL;DR: Identifying ingredients in complementary foods, consumed during the transition from exclusive milk feeding to a fully weaned state, that increase the representation and expressed beneficial functions of growth-promoting bacterial taxa in the developing microbiota could provide an effective, affordable, culturally acceptable, and sustainable approach to treatment.

TL;DR: For the first time, zero-order release of a small molecular weight therapeutic, ketotifen fumarate is demonstrated from molecularly imprinted hydrogels used as therapeutic contact lenses within a novel microfluidic device that simulates the volumetric flow rates, tear volume and tear composition of the eye.

TL;DR: The potential of biomimetic carriers to load significant amounts of ocular medication such as H(1)-antihistamines as well as to release a therapeutic dosage of drug in vitro in a controlled fashion for 5 days, with an even further extension in the presence of protein.

TL;DR: A statistical workflow was developed to identify conserved bacterial taxon-taxon covariance in the gut communities of healthy members of a Bangladeshi birth cohort who provided fecal samples monthly, suggesting that the ecogroup network is a conserved general feature of microbiota organization.