USDA-ARS Dairy and Functional Foods Research Unit, Eastern Regional Research Center

1 article published in JoVE

• Bioengineering

  
  Applying Advanced In Vitro Culturing Technology to Study the Human Gut Microbiota Jenni Firrman¹, LinShu Liu¹, Pieter Van den Abbeele², Ceylan Tanes³, Kyle Bittinger³, Peggy Tomasula^{1 1}Dairy and Functional Foods Research Unit, Eastern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, ²ProDigest, ³ Here, we present a protocol for culturing the gut microbiota of the colon in vitro, using a series of bioreactors that simulate the physiological conditions of the gastro intestinal tract.