- CORRESPONDENCE
By
- Christina T. Kozycki
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
- Ruchi Sharma
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
- Kapil Bharti
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
- Richard W. J. Lee
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
The Article demonstrating that the microbial metabolite ADP-heptose might be linked to a condition associated with ageing in humans represents a major advance in understanding how microorganisms might contribute to inflammatory diseases of ageing (P. Agarwal et al. Nature 642, 201–211; 2025).
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Nature 642, 572 (2025)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01905-3
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