From mice, clues to microbiome's influence on metabolic disease

Friday, February 17, 2017 - 18:01 in Biology & Nature

The community of microorganisms that resides in the gut, known as the microbiome, has been shown to work in tandem with the genes of a host organism to regulate insulin secretion, a key variable in the onset of the metabolic disease diabetes, new research has found.

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