Mouth bacteria can change its diet, supercomputers reveal
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - 05:00
in Health & Medicine
Mouth bacteria can change their metabolism in disease versus health. The Stampede and Lonestar supercomputers compared gene expression of 160,000 genes in healthy and diseased periodontal communities. Research paves way for biomarkers to predict illness from wide-ranging diseases such as periodontitis, diabetes, and Crohn's disease.