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US researchers decipher how one gut bacterium influences immunity

Drug Discovery World

A team led by researchers at HMS and the Broad has just accomplished the rare feat of connecting those dots for one important gut bacterium. You can change the bacterium and apply the same set of tests,” said Clardy. Such knowledge is essential for learning how to manipulate gut bacteria to treat or prevent illness.

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Stanford researchers construct the most complete synthetic microbiome

Drug Discovery World

The researchers decided to build their colony from the most prevalent bacteria and turned to the Human Microbiome Project (HMP), a National Institutes of Health initiative to sequence the full microbial genomes of over 300 adults. “We