By Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
After stem cell transplantation, donated immune cells sometimes lead to graft versus host disease (GvHD). Now researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Universitätsklinikum Regensburg (UKR) report that GvHD is much less common when certain microbes are present in the gut. In the future, it may be possible to deliberately bring about this protective composition of the microbiome.