New Delhi: Researchers from IIT Delhi and AIIMS have developed an ingestible microdevice that collects sample bacteria from the small intestine, allowing scientists to study the gut microbiome. The robot is similar to a pill. The microbes lining our guys helps us digest food, build immunity and even regulate mood through the gut-brain axis. Studying the gut microbiome has proved challenging because existing tools such as endoscopy or ileostomy are invasive, with indirect methods such as stool samples not reflecting the conditions higher up in the digestive tract. A paper describing the........

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