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There's a lot of interest right now in how different microbiomes--like the one made up of all the bacteria in our guts--could be harnessed to boost human health and cure disease.

In a new Nature Communications study, researchers from BUs Microbiome Initiative discovered that providing microbial communities with a broader variety of food sources didnt increase the variety of microbial species within their experiments, but more food did fuel more microbial growth. The teams ultimate goal is to learn how to direct microbiome behavior through environmental molecules like food sources.