All Pieter Dorrestein articles
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‘Molecular Rosetta Stone’ reveals how our microbiome talks to us
Researchers have uncovered thousands of previously unknown bile acids, a type of molecule used by our gut microbiome to communicate with the rest of the body.
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Researchers team up to publish bile acid breakthrough
Bile acids are linked to our full-body health, can act as drugs and are some of the best studied molecules in the history of biochemistry. Source: Image from the RSCB PDB of PDB ID 2BJG (M. Rossocha et al (2005) Biochem. 44: 5739-5748). This imag A 3D rendering ...
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New technology unscrambles the chatter of microbes
Using a database of over 60,000 microorganisms curated by researchers from across the globe, the new search tool instantly matches microbes to the metabolites they produce.