Given the ability to accurately map the microbial species and relative population sizes of the gut microbiome via 16S rRNA sequencing, researchers are generating an enormous amount of data linking specific characteristics of the gut microbiome to specific medical conditions, including the changes that take place with age. Here, researchers use data from patients with fibrosis in the lungs to mount an argument for Bifidobacterium adolescentis to be a beneficial species, and then test this proposal in aged mice. Increasing the presence of Bifidobacterium adolescentis in the gut microbiome of mice proves capable of attenuating fibrosis in th…
Bifidobacterium Adolescentis is a Beneficial Gut Microbe, Reduced in Number in Cases of Pulmonary Fibrosis
Given the ability to accurately map the microbial species and relative population sizes of the gut microbiome via 16S rRNA sequencing, researchers are generating an enormous amount of data linking specific characteristics of the gut microbiome to specific medical conditions, including the changes that take place with age. Here, researchers use data from patients with fibrosis in the lungs to mount an argument for Bifidobacterium adolescentis to be a beneficial species, and then test this proposal in aged mice. Increasing the presence of Bifidobacterium adolescentis in the gut microbiome of mice proves capable of attenuating fibrosis in th…