Scientists found how gut microbiota can adjust genome to environment
Reversible genetic inversion helps the gut adapt to incessant change, and the key to that is sugar.
Fluorescence microscope image: The upper image shows the expression of an outer-surface sugar on abacterial culture that expresses all subpopulations, and the two lower images show a bacterial population that expresses only the “pink” subpopulation, where the same outer-surface sugar is more promine(photo credit: TECHNION)ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
