All Marcel de Zoete articles
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NewsA new technology to isolate immunostimulatory members of the human gut microbiota
Scientists have developed a new technology to isolate a specific subset of gut bacteria that are recognized by IgA antibodies. These ‘IgA-coated’ bacteria are associated with an array of diseases and this proposed new technology has the potential to uncover the mechanisms behind these correlations.
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NewsTwo new bacterial species identified from patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Investigators at University Medical Center Utrecht and Yale University have isolated and characterized two new bacterial species from patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).