David Sela, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

David Sela, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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David Sela and co-authors at UMass Amherst found unexpectedly that a preservative compound, food-grade epsilon (ε)-polylysine, temporarily perturbed the diversity of microbes in the mouse gut, but this change was transient and over the 15-week study period.

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UMass Amherst

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