A new tool for modeling the human gut microbiome

Thursday, August 6, 2020 - 16:50 in Biology & Nature

Engineers have designed a device that replicates the lining of the colon. With the device, they can grow human colon cells along with oxygen-intolerant bacteria that normally live in the human digestive tract and have been implicated in Crohn's disease.

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