Image courtesy of United States Department of AgricultureThe bacterium Enterococcus faecalis, which lives in the human gut, is just one type of microbe that will be studied as part of NIH's Human Microbiome Project.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
$19 million to WU scientists to decode microbe DNA and explore links to disease
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis four grants totaling $19 million to explore the trillions of microbes that inhabit the human body and determine how they contribute to good health and disease. Image courtesy of United States Department of Agriculture
The bacterium Enterococcus faecalis, which lives in the human gut, is just one type of microbe that will be studied as part of NIH's Human Microbiome Project.
Image courtesy of United States Department of AgricultureThe bacterium Enterococcus faecalis, which lives in the human gut, is just one type of microbe that will be studied as part of NIH's Human Microbiome Project.
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