Better together: Gut microbiome communities’ resilience to drugs

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Source: Isabel Romero Calvo/EMBL

Many human medications can directly inhibit the growth and alter the function of the bacteria that constitute our gut microbiome. EMBL Heidelberg researchers have now discovered that this effect is reduced when bacteria form communities.

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