Image of the Week: A Model Microbiome | HHMI BioInteractive

Mouse gut microscopy. Credit Jessica Mark Welch

Research by the 's Jessica Mark Welch is featured this week in Howard Hughes Medical Institute's  site, which provides free science education resources:

In order to study the gut microbiome of humans, scientists have developed a mouse model of it. Here, fifteen different species of bacteria that were characteristic of the human gut microbiome were inserted into the guts of germ-free mice, where they grew to form a functioning microbiome. 

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