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#peristalsis — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #peristalsis, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Spatial structure shapes #microbiome function, but how does it emerge in the #gut? This study shows that bacterial growth in the viscoelastic matrix of gut contents generates clusters periodically broken by #peristalsis, linking gut mechanics to the microbiome @PLOSBiology plos.io/3OGsLUX