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UC San Diego researchers created coralME, a tool that quickly models gut microbes, revealing how diet affects gut health and linking microbial changes to inflammatory bowel disease.
Researchers at UC San Diego have developed coralME, a new tool that rapidly creates detailed metabolic models of gut microbes, enabling scientists to predict how these organisms respond to nutrients and diets.
The tool generated 495 models of common gut bacteria in a fraction of the time manual methods would take, revealing that low-iron or low-zinc diets may favor harmful microbes, while certain macronutrients support beneficial ones.
Applied to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) data, coralME identified shifts in gut chemistry—such as higher pH and lower protective short-chain fatty acids—and linked specific microbial changes to the disease.
The findings could improve diagnosis and personalized treatment for IBD and other microbiome-related conditions.
The study was published on November 20, 2025, in Cell Systems.
Los investigadores de UC San Diego crearon coralME, una herramienta que modela rápidamente los microbios intestinales, revelando cómo la dieta afecta la salud intestinal y vinculando los cambios microbianos a la enfermedad inflamatoria intestinal.