{"id":7552,"date":"2024-04-04T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmb.unc.edu\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2024-09-03T10:12:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T14:12:20","slug":"rachel-dumez-kornegay-publishes-paper-in-plos-genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/2024\/04\/rachel-dumez-kornegay-publishes-paper-in-plos-genetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Dumez-Kornegay publishes paper in PLOS Genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7553\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 163px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Rachel-DuMez-Kornegay-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel DuMez Kornegay\" width=\"153\" height=\"203\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Rachel Dumez-Kornegay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"entry-title\">Rachel Dumez-Kornegay &amp; Rob Dowen: Probiotics in kombucha found to mimic fasting and reduce fat stores in C. elegans model<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThese findings are significant as they are consistent with purported human health benefits of kombucha tea, which include protection against metabolic diseases, improved liver function, and reduced fat accumulation.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Rob Dowen, PhD<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the study in\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-03-probiotics-kombucha-mimic-fasting-fat.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medical News Today<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosgenetics\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pgen.1011003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PLOS Genetics<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Dumez-Kornegay &amp; Rob Dowen: Probiotics in kombucha found to mimic fasting and reduce fat stores in C. elegans model &nbsp; \u201cThese findings are significant as they are consistent with purported human health benefits of kombucha tea, which include protection against metabolic diseases, improved liver function, and reduced fat accumulation.\u201d\u00a0\u2014 Rob Dowen, PhD &nbsp; Read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/2024\/04\/rachel-dumez-kornegay-publishes-paper-in-plos-genetics\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rachel Dumez-Kornegay publishes paper in PLOS Genetics\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28418,"featured_media":7553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-publication","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Rachel-DuMez-Kornegay-1.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Rachel-DuMez-Kornegay-1.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Rachel-DuMez-Kornegay-1.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Rachel-DuMez-Kornegay-1.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Rachel-DuMez-Kornegay-1-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Rachel DuMez Kornegay","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/category\/news\/"},{"name":"Publication","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/category\/publication\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}