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Sheng Wang leaves the Boston University School of Medicine and agrees to retract two published studies.
The Nobel Prize winner who discovered the gene that encodes the major histocompatibility complex passes away at age 90.
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While gut microbiota appear to have both positive and negative impacts on our health, in the guts of healthy, lean individuals, the good outweighs the bad. Gut bacteria, most of which reside in the large intestine, process many otherwise indigest
Gut bacteria that feed on healthy food appear to amplify the nutritional benefits of those foods. However, they also appear to amplify the undesirable effects of unhealthy food. Here are a few examples. Read the full story.
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