by Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists have long queried the causes of immune disorders in only one of two identical twins with identical genes. New research from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute in Spain and their collaborators, has found the answer lies in both alterations in...
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Immunodeficiency affects intestinal microbiome
by Mette Haagen Marcussen, Technical University of Denmark Graphical abstract. Credit: DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2021.02.053 In the largest study of intestinal bacterial composition (also called the intestinal microbiome) to date in persons with the immunodeficiency selective IgA deficiency, researchers at DTU Bioengineering have ascertained that people with IgA deficiency have a much more frequent incidence of E. coli,...