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🦠 Microbiologists discover new species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-microbiologists-species-methane-archaea-human.html

Microbiologists discover new species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut
An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (Braunschweig, Germany)—and the University of Illinois (U.S.) has identified and described a previously unknown species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut: Methanobrevibacter intestini sp. nov. (strain WWM1085).