Only three gut types?

An article in the online journal Naturenews reports that the European Molecular Biology Laboratory has released a study concluding that humans have three different [microbial] gut types.

Article on Naturenews.

Original press release on EMBL.

1 Response to “Only three gut types?”


  1. 1 Tracee April 22, 2011 at 5:07 pm

    That’s very interesting. I would have guessed more types. I wonder if they took a group of autistics, IBD’ers and autoimmune folks and compared them to the normal population if that would still be true.


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