Gut bacteriax

The bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli for short) is crucial in modern biotechnology. Scientists use it to store DNA sequences from other organisms, to produce proteins...

Dr Juliet Ansell is the lead researcher in Plant & Food Research’s human gut health programme. The research aims to better understand the interactions that go...

For most of the time, the population of bacteria in the large intestine lives in balance within its confines.