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Here's Hoping for Lean Microbes

Dec 21, 2006

Two papers out of Jeff Gordon's Washington University lab published in today's issue of Nature provide a link between the microbial populations in the gut and the obesity of the host. According to the editor's summary of these metabolic papers:

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