Microbiology: Straight from the gut

Apoorva Mandavilli

Nature, 2008, vol. 453, issue 7195, 581-582

Abstract: The human body teems with microbes. In the first of two features , Asher Mullard looks at the global efforts to catalogue this vast 'microbiome'. In this, the second, Apoorva Mandavilli meets the surgeons who have a rare opportunity to watch an ecosystem being established as they transplant guts from one person to another.

Date: 2008
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