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Going with the gut to understand diseases

Paula Littlejohn researches how nutrients in early life affect long-term health.
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Paula Littlejohn in her lab at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Paula Littlejohn is a PhD researcher at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Credit: Leslie Kennah/Michael Smith Laboratories/UBC

Following my master’s degree, I worked for around ten years for pharmaceutical companies, collecting data during clinical drug trials. As I tracked participants and the medicines they took, I realized that practising health care is essentially managing disease symptoms. That understanding motivated me to study how nutrition interacts with genetics to cause disease.

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Nature 602, 540 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00416-9

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