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...Conway says that boosting the levels of these bacteria has a variety of benefits: "Seventy per cent of your immune system is localized in your intestine, and intestinal bacteria trigger the immune system." The wrong balance among species can cause or aggravate flatulence, diarrhea, constipation, infections, cancers, and conditions like irritable bowel syndrome...
...There is no question that the large-bowel microflora [bacteria] are important for human health and that probiotics can contribute positively," says David Topping, a chief research scientist at Australia's premier science body, the CSIRO. "But there is much that we don't know about the nature of the benefits they give...
...Studies of probiotic products have found that some contain far fewer microbes than their makers claim; others contain no live bacteria at all. Earlier this year, Dannon was hit with legal action in California for allegedly exaggerating the benefits of Activia yogurt. The company rejected the accusation...
...team researched the bacteria Shewanella oneidensis, affectionately known as Shewie. It is a specie capable of performing anaerobic metabolism in oxygen-poor environments and of donating electrons to surrounding substrates...
...competition, the team presented their work with IPTG, a chemical that augmented the amount of electricity produced in the bacteria with modified plasmids...