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Microbiome Gone Wild/ Cell, October 19, 2017 (Vol. 171, Issue 5)

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Channel: Cell Press · 2017 · Science & Technology

Lab mice have been the most common tool to study how the microbiome affects host physiology in health and disease, but do they really represent what’s going on in the real world? A new study surveying the microbiome of a large population of wild-caught mice suggests that this might not be the case. Check out the paper at: http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)31065-6.

Stephan P. Rosshart, Brian G. Vassallo, Davide Angeletti, Diane S. Hutchinson, Andrew P. Morgan, Kazuyo Takeda, Heather D. Hickman, John A. McCulloch, Jonathan H. Badger, Nadim J. Ajami, Giorgio Trinchieri, Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, Jonathan W. Yewdell, and Barbara Rehermann (2016). Wild Mouse Gut Microbiota Promotes Host Fitness and Improves Disease Resistance. Cell 171.

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Microbiome Gone Wild/ Cell, October 19, 2017 (Vol. 171, Issue 5)

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