Gut microbiota directly shapes the makeup of human immune system, shows study – News-Medical.net

MSK researchers have uncovered an important finding about the relationship between the microbiota and the immune system, showing for the first time that the concentration of different types of immune cells in the blood changes in relation to the presence of different bacterial strains in the gut.
In recent years, the microbiota — the community of bacteria and other microorganisms that live on and in the human body — has captured the attention of scientists and the public, in part because it’s…

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