Our Professor of Molecular Systems Biology, Kiran Patil, and his colleagues in the MRC Toxicology unit and at EMBL, Imperial College, King's College, London and Tübingen, have published an article in Nature Microbiology. The paper examines how certain species of microbe found in the human gut can absorb PFAS - the toxic and long-lasting ‘forever chemicals’, and how boosting these species in our gut microbiome could help protect us from the harmful effects of PFAS. Read more on the University website and in Scientific American and The Guardian.