The Human Intestinal Bacteria Collection (HiBC) offers scientists access to over 300 live gut bacterial strains, many never studied before, empowering research into inflammation, immunity, and future microbiome-based therapies. HiBC: a publicly available collection of bacterial strains isolated from the human gut. Image Credit: Tatiana Shepeleva / Shutterstock Very few strains out of the multitude of bacteria that inhabit the human gut are accessible to scientific research, and a vast majority remain largely unknown. To address this dearth of knowledge, researchers from Germany unveiled a new and publicly available collection of human gut bacteria, called the Human Intestinal Bacteria Collection…