Humans must maintain a balanced composition for the trillions of commensal microbes that inhabit their gut, but how they do this is largely unclear. It now emerges that one factor is a molecular pathway in gut epithelial cells.
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van Lookeren Campagne, M., Dixit, V. In command of commensals. Nature 474, 42–43 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/474042a
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