From left are graduate student Sophia Kenney and postdoctoral scholar Emily Van Syoc with Erika Ganda, assistant professor of food animal microbiomes. Credit: Pennsylvania State University Metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, are associated with compositional shifts in the human gut microbiome, including the fungal fraction called the mycobiome. But research on the mycobiome and how type 2 diabetes or its common treatment, metformin, may interact remains relatively limited despite suggestions that these fungi can influence the overall health of the microbiome, according to a research team at Penn Read More
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