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Michael Cooper

University of Chicago

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Diet outperforms microbial transplant to drive microbiome recovery post-antibiotics

Megan S Kennedy, Andrew Freiburger, Michael Cooper, Kathleen R. Beilsmith, Marissa L St. George, Martin Kalski, Candace M. Cham, Alexander Guzzetta, Siew C. Ng, Francis K.L. Chan, Orlando DeLeon, David T. Rubin, Chris S Henry, Joy M. Bergelson, Eugene B. Chang

This study shows that a regular chow diet, not microbial transplant, enables rapid gut microbiome recovery after antibiotics in mice, and that diet is essential for effective fecal microbiota transplant.

Nature · Apr 30, 2025Peer-reviewedMicrobiology