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Research Highlight

Technology for culturing gut microorganisms developed by NOSTER

Source: Noster Inc

It is said that more 1000 types, totaling 100 trillion microorganisms coexist in the human gut, and as most of them live in an oxygen-free environment it is difficult to culture them in natural environments.

To overcome this problem NOSTER has developed innovative microdroplet technology to separate live intestinal bacteria from the fecal suspension in a droplet approximately 50 micrometers n diameter and culture them under conditions suitable for each intestinal microorganism. NOSTER is using this culturing technology to construct a library of over 1000 strains of intestinal microorganisms.