Two MIT Researchers Set Out to Map the Uncharted Terrain of the Human Microbiome
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Jeneen Interlandi
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The article profiles researchers Mathilde Poyet and Mathieu Groussin, who as postdoctoral fellows at MIT were studying the human microbiome — the vast ecosystem of microbes living in and on the human body. Poyet focused on rare bacterial species that had never been grown in a lab, while Groussin studied how humans and microbes co-evolved over millennia. Their work highlights how little scientists still know about the microbiome despite its essential role in human health.
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· 3 pulledPoyet, an ecologist and a microbiologist, was trying to study rare bacterial species, the kind that had never been grown in a lab before.
Groussin, a computational biologist in the same lab, wanted to understand how humans and microbes evolved together over millenniums.
Each was focused on microbes that make their homes in and on the human body, what scientists co
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