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...growing body of research suggests there's another, less visible reason to focus on your gut if you want to lose weight. Scientists led by Andrew Gewirtz at Emory University reveal that your intestines harbor a universe of bacteria - the so-called gut microbiota - that may play an important role in whether your body will store the food you eat as extra pounds. (See pictures of what the world eats...
Harvard Medical School Professor Jon Clardy teamed with researchers in the department of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology to pinpoint the amino acid proline—a component of hemolymph, or insect blood—as the trigger for the transformation of roundworm bacteria from dormant to virulent, eliciting comparisons of the bacteria to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...
...groups of bacteria, called Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus, reside dormant in the gut of roundworms—also called nematodes—until they are “switched on” to excrete antibiotics, digestive enzymes, and insecticidal toxins...
Researchers said that the ability to manipulate the trigger causing the bacteria to release virulent factors suggests the possibility of discovering a method to “switch off” the release of harmful substances in the human body...
...addition, the discovery may provide leads in the search for other antibiotic compounds produced by bacteria, according to Kontnik...