Broad Institute: Global Survey of Gut Microbes Uncovers 18 New Bacterial Species and Clues to Antibiotic Resistance
March 01, 2024
March 01, 2024
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 1 -- The Broad Institute issued the following news:
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One day in 2015, Joseph Manson placed in his refrigerator the colon of a wild turkey he'd just hunted near his small farm in South Carolina. A physics professor at Clemson University, he'd been recruited by his daughter, Abigail Manson, a scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, to help in a global study she was participating in to discover new species of gut bacteria. . . .
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One day in 2015, Joseph Manson placed in his refrigerator the colon of a wild turkey he'd just hunted near his small farm in South Carolina. A physics professor at Clemson University, he'd been recruited by his daughter, Abigail Manson, a scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, to help in a global study she was participating in to discover new species of gut bacteria. . . .