The not-so-secret life of gut bacteria

UC Berkeley bioengineering professor Mohammad Mofrad's team unveils MetaBiome, a cutting-edge computational platform simulating trillions of gut bacteria in dynamic biofilms to decode their growth, cooperation, and resilience. The model reveals that well-mixed, cooperative bacterial communities outperform competitive ones in protecting the gut barrier, resisting invaders, and enduring environmental shifts, paving ways to boost therapies for IBD, fecal transplants, and antibiotic resistance. Read the full story here.