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Gut health index measures microbial interactions to track disease

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Scientists have identified a new way to distinguish healthy guts from diseased ones and track how some illnesses progress by measuring how gut bacteria interact with one another. According to a study published in Science, a collaboration between scientists at Rutgers University, Universidad de Granada in Spain and Princeton University found that healthy and diseased gut microbiomes behave like two distinct ecological states, driven not by indivi…

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The study identifies two ecological states of the microbiome and proposes a metric that distinguishes between healthy people and patients with different pathologies

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A person's intestinal health depends not only on the bacteria present, but also on how they interact with each other, says a study, which proposes a new index, using bacterial behavior and which can help track diseases such as colorectal cancer. Research, conducted by the University of Granada and Rutgers (USA), found that healthy and sick intestinal microbiomes behave as two distinct ecological states, driven not by individual microbes, but by …

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Medical Xpress broke the news in on Thursday, February 26, 2026.
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