Prof. Dirk Haller and Olivia Coleman (IMAGE)

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Prof. Dirk Haller and Olivia Coleman

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A team led by Dirk Haller, Professor of Immunology and Nutrition at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and Dr. Olivia Coleman has deciphered a mechanism by which bacteria in the gut microbiome multiply that, in excessive amounts, promote cancer. In this image, Dirk Haller and Olivia Coleman are looking at recordings of an intestinal organoid, a 3D miniature model of the intestine that replicates the structure and function of the intestinal mucosa.  

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