The gut is a new frontier in microbiology, offering many opportunities for innovative investigation. The finding of one such study is that intestinal inflammation in mice can be tamed by bacterial sugars.
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Kullberg, M. Soothing intestinal sugars. Nature 453, 602–604 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453602a
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