Guided by the immune system, researchers have identified types of gut bacteria in young children in Malawi that are linked to nutritional health and that have diagnostic and therapeutic implications for childhood undernutrition.
The research, led by Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is published Feb. 25 in Science Translational Medicine. The work, funded largely by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, also involved scientists at the University of Malawi in Africa, University of Tampere in Finland and University of California, Davis.
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