Materials-Enabled Strategies for Studying and Manipulating the Gut Microbiome | Scott Medina, PhD, Penn State

Dr. Scott Medina shared his work on developing a synthetic mucus for improving microbiome research models and hydrogel capsules for delivering live beneficial microbes.

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