Engineering stability in the microbiome: New research could lead to optimized probiotic creation

A team of researchers led by Carnegie Science's Will Ludington, Karina Gutiérrez-García, and Kevin Aumiller identified genes that enable a beneficial bacterial species to colonize specific regions of the gastrointestinal tract. Their work, published in Science, could revolutionize our understanding of how the composition of the gut microbiome is determined and open the door to microbiome engineering.