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Taipei, July 17 (CNA) A new study by Taiwan's National Health Research Institute (NHRI) has identified a link between CLEC2, a C-type lectin-like type II transmembrane receptor, and thromboinflammation, the major cause of morbidity and mortality in COVID-19 patients.
Researchers at the National Health Research Institutes have discovered a new strain of intestinal bacteria that could help treat and prevent inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
The study led by Kao Cheng-yuan (高承源), an associate investigator at the institutes’ Immunology Research Center, was published in November last year in the journal Cell Reports.
Growing evidence connects an imbalanced microbiome to a variety of diseases, the institutes said.
Totaling more than the number of cells in the human body, despite only weighing about 200g, gut bacteria are understood to be central to human health.
Nearly a decade of research into the microbiome by Kao and his