Assessing Bacteria Growth Rate Gives Novel Insight into Health and Microbiome

Wednesday, September 2, 2015 - 08:30 in Biology & Nature

Investigating how the microbiome impacts human health, the labs of Dr. Eran Elinav and Prof. Eran Segal at the Weizmann Institute of Science took a fresh approach: measuring the growth rate of the bacteria. The findings led Dr. Elinav to say, "microbial growth rate reveals things about our health that cannot be seen with any other analysis method."

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