Researchers create map of the gut's microbial landscape

(Forsyth Institute) A collaborative effort by a team of researchers from three institutions including the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, the Forsyth Institute in Cambridge and Washington University in St. Louis provided an early glimpse of how microbial communities in the gut -- known collectively as the gut microbiome -- are spatially organized, uncovering a surprising degree of mixing among different bacterial members.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news