"Director’s Blog: Mouse Study Finds Microbe Might Protect against Food Poisoning"
As it turns out, bacteria may not be the only interior bugs with the power to influence our biology positively—a new study suggests that an entirely different kingdom of primarily single-celled microbes, called protists, may be in on the act. In a study published in the journal Cell, an NIH-funded research team reports that it has identified a new protozoan, called Tritrichomonas musculis (T. mu), living inside the gut of laboratory mice. The discovery comes from M Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, a professor of oncological sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and colleagues, including graduate student Aleksey Chudnovskiy and postdoctoral fellow Arthur Mortha. Based on the new findings, Dr. Merad and Chudnovskiy say it now appears that protists probably aren’t all bad when it comes to our health. Learn more.
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