The Isala sisterhood: Let’s write history together
Our Isala team is delighted with the increasing international interest in our Isala project and the co-creational approach that we have implemented in Isala to better understand the female microbiome....
View ArticleMeet Dora: our sister project for vaginal health in Nigeria
As sisterhood projects are spreading like harmattan fire across the globe, Nigeria is not left behind. Get to know the Dora project! We are thrilled to introduce this Nigerian sister project to you....
View ArticleFrom sharks to menstrual pain, with Isala it’s all possible
If you have followed our Isala project for a while, you know that we are very enthusiastic and keen to study a lot, especially when it comes to advancing the health of women (and their partners and...
View ArticleIsala at a festival: The big award ceremony in Linz!
Now, 3.5 years after the start of our Isala project, we already achieved many milestones: more than 6000 women participated, we found more than 10 types of bacteria, almost 3000 vaginal bacteria were...
View ArticleInternational recognition for Isala in a high-quality journal
Your attention please! Today the most important results of our first Isala phase are published in a scientific journal. Not just any kind of journal, no, we are referring to the one-and-only...
View ArticleGet to know Lactobacillus isalae: the first official Isala baby bacterium
Woohoo! Thanks to the vaginal swabs of our Isala participants, we discovered a completely new bacterial species in the vagina! It was up to us to name this new bacterium ourselves and we called it...
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