Image of the Week: A Model Microbiome | HHMI BioInteractive
Mouse gut microscopy. Credit Jessica Mark Welch
Research by the MBL's Jessica Mark Welch is featured this week in Howard Hughes Medical Institute's BioInteractive site, which provides free science education resources:
In order to study the gut microbiome of humans, scientists have developed a mouse model of it. Here, fifteen different species of bacteria that were characteristic of the human gut microbiome were inserted into the guts of germ-free mice, where they grew to form a functioning microbiome. Read more and download high-resolution image here.