Deciphering gut microbiome ‘chatter’ to combat IBD (IMAGE)

Earlham Institute

Deciphering gut microbiome ‘chatter’ to combat IBD

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Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron cell releasing Bacterial Extracellular Vesicles (BEVs), which are tiny packages created by bacteria that they fill with various molecules and release from the cell.

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Image by Rokas Juodeikis (Quadram Institute) and Ian Brown (University of Kent), credit Catherine Booth at Quadram Institute.

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