gut flora
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How a Common Fungus May Contribute to Digestive Issues
It isn’t just the bacteria in our gut that play an important role in keeping us healthy — yeasts and other fungi that live there are also key parts of the equation. But how exactly all these microbes interact with our bodies isn’t well understood. In new research involving mice, researchers found that a healthy…
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Researchers Just Looked at Neanderthal Poop to Understand Their Guts
Around 50,000 years ago, a bunch of Neanderthals made a home — and a bathroom — out of what is now a rocky escarpment south of Valencia, Spain. Over the last few years, some of those paleo-poops, the oldest known to come from a human species, have been excavated and analysed. Now, researchers have caught…