A study led by the University of California, Davis, has found significant differences in gut bacteria ... and type 2 diabetes. Independent of body mass index (BMI), insulin resistance tends to be more ...

The project is the next step in a similar project the team worked on in 2005, when they inserted four genes into the bacteria to produce black-and-white images, reports Adam Levy at Nature.

At that point, however, they could generate only black-and-white images. To enable Escherichia coli bacteria to register colour, Voigt’s team modified them by inserting genes that respond ...

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