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News Archive 2013
NPR features Cork Scientist's Research
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NPR National Public Radio a highly respected Washington based public service broadcasting service features work of John Cryan and colleagues on the Rob Stein programme. Rob Stein a correspondent and senior editor on NPR's science desk discusses how the gut microbes could talk to the brain.
"The vagus nerve is the highway of communication between what's going on in the gut and what's going on in the brain," says John Cryan of the University College Cork in Ireland, who has collaborated with Collins.
Gut microbes may also communicate with the brain in other ways, scientists say, by modulating the immune system or by producing their own versions of neurotransmitters.
Listen to the broadcast and read the blog here