Gut Microbiome Understanding Insight Facilitated by New Platform

Researchers say they have taken a step closer to better understanding how the gut microbiome is formed, changes over time, and is affected by disturbances like antibiotics. Published June 21 in Molecular Systems Biology , a study (“ Deciphering Microbial Interactions in Synthetic Human Gut Microbiome Communities ”) by a team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California, Berkeley, describes a platform for predicting how microbial gut communi