Overweight? Get someone else's gut bacteria

Friday, March 18, 2011 - 12:00 in Health & Medicine

People who are overweight may have different gut bacteria from those in their slender fellow human beings. This is the contention of Willem de Vos, professor of Microbiology at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, in his dies lecture on 9 March.

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