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  • Our microbes are starving, and that’s a good thing

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    October 29, 2018
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    High-protein diet, antibiotics make gut a festering swamp. Each of us is only half human. The other half is microbial. Trillions of viruses, fungi, bacteria and other microscopic organisms coat our skin and line our vital organs. We depend on these microbial communities, collectively known as our microbiome, to digest food, synthesize vitamins, bolster immune…

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  • Regina Barzilay, James Collins, and Phil Sharp join leadership of new effort on machine learning in health

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    October 3, 2018
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    PhotMacArthur "geniuses" in machine learning and synthetic biology to serve as faculty co-leads; Nobel laureate to chair advisory board of new reasearch center. Regina Barzilay and James Collins have been named the faculty co-leads of the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health, or J-Clinic, effective immediately, announced Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the…

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  • Scientists Are Retooling Bacteria to Cure Disease

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    September 5, 2018

    By manipulating DNA, researchers are trying to create microbes that, once ingested, work to treat a rare genetic condition – a milestone in synthetic biology.                                                            …

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