Revealing the unique signatures of healthy guts as we age

The healthy elderly have a markedly different microbiome composition from those who were unwell…

Mechanistically, it’s not clear what is causing this divergence of increasingly unique microbiomes in healthy elderly people. Is this correlation or causation, in terms of healthy ageing? 

Sean Gibbons at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, US, and co-workers will use their Global Grant for Gut Health to explore the unique gut microbial compositional signatures, gut microbial functional gene signatures, and associated blood metabolites in healthy elderly people.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-023-00117-5?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=MEDR_BRCON_ENGM_GL_PCFU_CFULF_GGGH_c5SG&twclid=2125xkzxgn78gj9ni6iej35zfv