Gut bugs making obese teenagers healthier
Listen to A Better Start’s Director, Professor Wayne Cutfield, talk to Radio New Zealand’s Nine To Noon programme about what happens when gut bacteria from healthy teenagers is introduced, in capsule form, to severely overweight teen’s digestive...
WATCH: Joint Funding Round – Cure Kids and A Better Start Q&A webinar
A Better Start: E Tipu e Rea and Cure Kids are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 2 February, 2021 at 12pm, Cure Kids and A Better Start Joint Funding Round – Q&A. Register now In this webinar, A Better Start Director Wayne Cutfield and Cure Kids Director of...
World-first research uses gut bacteria to improve health of obese teenagers
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...
A Better Start funding for research to address inequities in Māori maternal health services
New kaupapa Māori research funded by A Better Start: E Tipu e Rea National Science Challenge aims to address inequities in maternal health services for Māori by using Māori knowledge and tikanga to empower Māori families. Dr Waikaremoana Waitoki from the University of...
Personal touch to researcher’s work
As an immigrant to New Zealand, A Better Start (ABS) E Tipu e Rea National Science Challenge PhD candidate Alice Kim says her research has personal relevance to her.