The Microbiome and Cancer

Cancer group was looking at a microbe, lactobacillus rotary, named after the German microbiologist who discovered this microbe in breast milk. They gave it to mice and they noticed something unusual. These mice developed what they described as rich, luxuriant fur. All those effects came because rotary that colonizes the entire length of the GI tract, by the way, not just the colon, sends a signal to the brain to release oxytocin.