Mercedes Gómez de Agüero

Mercedes Gómez de Agüero

Mercedes Gómez de Agüero
Position

Junior Group Leader at the Institute of Systems Immunology and member of Max Planck Research Group at The University of Würzburg (Germany)

Microbiota of pregnant mice influences the stem cells of their offspring

Research in mice shows that the gut microbiota of pregnant mice influences the development of stem cells in their offspring. Changes in the bacterium Akkermansia muciniphila in the maternal microbiota alter the proliferation of intestinal and neural cells in the offspring, according to the study published in Cell Stem Cell.

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