Lactobacillus, a beneficial bacterial species (red), has genes that enable it to attach to a specific region of the fruit fly gastrointestinal tract (blue/cyan). Credit: Ren Dodge/Carnegie Science.

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A multinational research team led by Professor Tong Zhang from the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU Engineering), in collaboration with an ...

An interdisciplinary team of Rice University researchers has uncovered previously unknown relationships between ...