Dr Kiran Patil, Director of Research at the MRC Toxicology Unit is the senior author of a new study which shows how cooperation among bacterial species allows them to thrive as a community. This research is from the MRC Toxicology Unit at the University of Cambridge and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

"If you look at the whole world of microbiomes, cooperation is key to their structure and function." - Kiran Patil

More details regarding this research are available on the following links:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-00816-5

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cooperation-is-key-to-success-in-microbial-communities