Last month, Popular Science discussed the state of gut microbiome research and the often overgeneralized claims of many probiotics. As we concluded, the field is still in its infancy and one of the main challenges to creating effective prescription probiotics is that it’s extremely difficult to culture a lasting population of specific bacteria in the gut. But in a paper out last week in the journal Cell Host and Microbe, researchers at the University of…
Researchers restored a colony of microbes in the gut
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