Liam O’Mahony (Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research) talks to Mairi McLean (senior clinical lecturer and consultant in gastroenterology at the University of Aberdeen) about his paper looking at Bifidobacterium infantis’s interaction with T cells, and the bacterium’s potential to protect against gastrointestinal inflammation.

See also:

Bifidobacterium infantis 35624 administration induces Foxp3 T regulatory cells in human peripheral blood: potential role for myeloid and plasmacytoid dendritic cells (http://tinyurl.com/b6xnnsx)