The positive functions of microbiota within certain threshold levels in the human gut constituted an important area of research that could lead to a better understanding of the pathogenesis of a host of bacterial, viral and parasitic infections, G. Balakrish Nair, Executive Director, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, New Delhi, said on Sunday.

Delivering an address after being presented the fourth MDR Gold Medal Oration Award at a function hosted by Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre and the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF), Dr. Nair said while the West had produced a substantial body of work on the gut microbiota —even advancing to a stage of stratifying enterocytes —there were relatively few such studies undertaken in this part of the world......Read More

Source: The Hindu