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DNA Sequencing and Identifying Organisms in the Gut Biome
The mechanism of action is typically what's called generally speaking protein mimicry. And so your body makes an antibody to that little part of the rock on the bacterial cell to get rid of it. We're finding all these disease states from lupus to show grins to rheumatoid arthritis have some linkage back to some bacteria that shows up in your gut. Now we can be very targeted, potentially, about eradicating that bacteria from the gut or, you know, kind of changing our gut biome for good.