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Alice Cheng

@AliceCheng107

Microbiome engineer and synthetic biologist, Microbiology PhD Gastroenterology MD, Mom

 Stanford, CA
Joined June 2022
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And a giant thank you to @carlzimmer for covering our research and its potential! nytimes.com/2022/09/06/scien…
Scientists Have Made a Human Microbiome From Scratch (Published 2022)

Scientists Have Made a Human Microbiome From Scratch (Published 2022)

To better understand how microbes affect our health, researchers combined 119 species of bacteria naturally found in the human body.

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A ginormous thank you to Michael Fischbach @mfgrp, KC Huang, Po-Yi Ho, Andres Aranda-Diaz, @SunitJain and everyone who contributed to this multidisciplinary tour de force, we could not have done it without each other: cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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The microbiome and gut homeostasis science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… -a beautiful review on gut redox states, an often overlooked aspect of microbiome research
The microbiome and gut homeostasis

The microbiome and gut homeostasis

A review explains that high-fat diets impair gut oxygen control and nitrate exposure, resulting in changes to the gut microbiota.

science.org
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Why lectures are like blind dates nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Gut microbes that munch on orange pulp charge up metabolism nature.com/articles/d41586-0… Gordon lab strikes again in the search for biologically significant microbial metabolites
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