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January 22, 2013

The carcinogenic microbiome: slap your microbes around, and they slap you back

Two notable studies on the microbiome in colon cancer came out late last year. The first, published in Science, basically asked what happens when our native microbes are exposed to constant inflammation — how does it affect them, and how does this altered community affect us, their hosts? The experiment occurred in mice that had a crucial immune signaling molecule knocked out called IL10. These mice respond to
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