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WashU Medicine gets $11 million to study rogue microbes
Original: $11 million grant to investigate why resident microbes go rogue
WashU Medicine has received an $11 million grant to investigate why resident microbes, normally harmless organisms living in and on the body, sometimes turn harmful and cause disease. The funding will support research into how these microbial communities shift from benign to dangerous, work that could lead to new ways of preventing infections and other microbiome-related conditions.
Why now: The large grant and the growing interest in the microbiome's role in health make the research announcement newsworthy.
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- $11 million grant to investigate why resident microbes go rogue · WashU Medicine
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