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Pioneering plant microbiome research: Julia Vorholt receives 2025 Novonesis Biotechnology Prize from the Novo Nordisk Foundation

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Copenhagen, Denmark – 13 March 2025: Professor Julia Vorholt’s work has changed how we think about plant health. Her innovative research on plant microbiomes holds the potential to transform agriculture. For her achievements, the microbiologist is receiving the Novonesis Biotechnology Prize. Plants are not alone. Just as humans rely on gut bacteria for digestion and […]

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Bacteria in our gut could play a role in cardiometabolic disease: A new initiative aims to find out

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A new Denmark-based research initiative aims to establish a potential causal link between the gut microbiome – the combined genetic material of the communities of bacteria and other microbes in the human gut – and the development of cardiometabolic diseases (CMD) such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. The goal is to generate […]

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