Pairing off: a bottom-up approach to the human gut microbiome

The human gut microbiome has been implicated in a variety of health outcomes, and extensive research has aimed to understand its composition and function, primarily via metagenomic analyses. An examination of how the microbiome develops and interacts through interspecies competition and cooperation has been lacking so far. In their recent work, Venturelli et al (2018) build a synthetic gut community and accurately predict its dynamics with a simple network of pairwise interactions.

Source: Molecular Systems Biology - June 21, 2018 Category: Molecular Biology Authors: Abreu, C., Ortiz Lopez, A., Gore, J. Tags: Microbiology, Virology & Host Pathogen Interaction, Quantitative Biology & Dynamical Systems, Synthetic Biology & Biotechnology News [amp ] Views Source Type: research