How Gut Bacteria and the Immune System Affect Aging
The team used the fruit-fly Drosophila melanogaster, which is often used to study the biology of gut bacteria.
(Picture: Drosophila melanogaster - side / André Karwath aka Aka / CC BY-SA 2.5)
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