A new center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis aims to tackle the challenges of feeding the world’s rapidly expanding population and improving global health by linking efforts to develop more nutritious foods with discoveries gleaned from the gut microbiome.
The Center for Gut Microbiome and Nutrition Research will be led by Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, whose pioneering studies have illuminated the intimate relationship between diet, the mix of microbes that live in the intestine and overall nutritional health.
Read the full story in The Source: New center aims to use gut microbiome discoveries to improve human nutrition
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