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Gut microbe may fight obesity and diabetes

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Bacterium helps to regulate metabolism in mice.

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  1. Everard, A. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1219451110 (2013).

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