Scientists from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have shown that deleting a single gene in a certain strain of intestinal bacteria caused metabolic changes and reduced weight gain in mice.
Researchers are already aware of the influence the microbiome has on the development of obesity and metabolic diseases.
However, they are less clear on the specific ways in which it exerts this influence because so many different species of bacteria producing many different types of metabolites are present in the gut.
