Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Monday, November 4, 2013

Gut microbes and intestinal health

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is one of the best-studied diseases associated with alterations in the composition of beneficial bacterial populations. However, the nature of that relationship, and how it is maintained, has yet to be clarified.
Now, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have identified a molecule that appears to play a starring role in this process.

Read more:
Molecular link between gut microbes, intestinal health


























Source: Science Daily
Image credits: Lance Peterson, Theresa Alenghat, and David Artis. Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.


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