{"id":6207,"date":"2015-12-02T19:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.embl.de\/?p=6207"},"modified":"2024-04-19T16:02:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T14:02:45","slug":"1512-drugging-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugging bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Metformin, the drug most often used to treat type 2 diabetes, has a greater effect on gut microbes than the disease itself. The finding, by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embl.de\/research\/units\/scb\/bork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bork group<\/a>&nbsp;and colleagues in the MetaHIT consortium, has implications for studies searching for links between our microbiomes and disease. Published today in <em>Nature<\/em>, the study points to new approaches for understanding how metformin works, and minimising the side effects of a drug that patients take in high doses for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s surprising that this single drug triggers such a noticeable change in our microbes,\u201d says Peer Bork, who led the work at EMBL. \u201cNow think how many drugs are out there, and how many people take several drugs daily: even if only a fraction of drugs have this big an impact, they could still be dramatically shaping people\u2019s gut.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metformin is a drug commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes, to help control blood sugar levels. It is typically administered in relatively high doses. And, as type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease, patients usually take the drug for years. But exactly <em>how<\/em> it acts inside patients\u2019 bodies is not yet entirely clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"vf-blockquote\"><p>anyone trying to minimise side effects could think about acting on the microbes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The scientists compared stool samples from over 700 people, including patients with type 2 diabetes and healthy people. The team found that, based on the communities of microbes present in a person\u2019s stool, they couldn\u2019t reliably tell if the person had diabetes or not \u2013 unless the person took metformin. Patients who took the drug had considerably more <em>E.coli<\/em> and fewer <em>I. bartletti<\/em> bacteria than healthy people and patients who did not take metformin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe differences we observed in microbial communities could explain some of metformin\u2019s side effects, which means anyone trying to minimise those side effects could think about acting on the microbes in the gut,\u201d says Kristoffer Forslund, from Bork\u2019s lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some day, a person taking metformin might conceivably also get a yoghurt or dietary supplement to help maintain the balance of their inner microbial community, the scientists postulate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings also explain the contradictory results of previous studies trying to establish how the community of microbe species in the gut differs between healthy people and people with type 2 diabetes. The fact that different studies found different microbial communities associated with diabetes was probably because more patients took metformin in one study than in another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"vf-blockquote\"><p>we\u2019re not alone: the medicines we swallow don\u2019t just affect us directly<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>For scientists searching for bacterial \u2018fingerprints\u2019 that could be used to diagnose or treat diseases such as diabetes, the current study highlights the importance of considering whether treatments are influencing \u2013 and potentially confounding \u2013 the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur study sets a new standard for exploring the impact of various disorders on the human gut microbiota,\u201d says Oluf Pedersen, who led the study at Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Metabolic research at University of Copenhagen. \u201cIdeally, future studies should be run in treatment-na\u00efve patients to avoid confounding effects of medications on disease-specific imbalances of intestinal microbes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis work really highlights the importance of the gut microbiome, not just in keeping us healthy but also in influencing how we react to treatments,\u201d says Dusko Ehrlich, from the French Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), in France, who led the MetaHIT consortium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese findings really show we\u2019re not alone: the medicines we swallow don\u2019t just affect us directly. They can have a profound impact on our microbial \u2018inhabitants\u2019, too,\u201d Bork concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"vf-divider\"\/>\n\n\n<p>This study stems from earlier work by \u2013 and draws data from \u2013 the MetaHIT consortium, an EU-funded project which ran from 2008 to 2012 and which aimed to establish associations between the genes of microbes in the human gut and our health and disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commonly used diabetes drug metformin impacts gut bacteria more than disease itself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17591],"tags":[28,42,32,43,1748],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-6207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-science-technology","tag-bioinformatics","tag-genomics","tag-health","tag-heidelberg","tag-press-release"],"acf":{"article_intro":"<p>Commonly used diabetes drug impacts gut bacteria more than the disease itself, EMBL scientists have found.<\/p>\n","related_links":false,"article_sources":[{"source_description":"<p>Forslund K, Hildebrand F, Nielsen T, Falony G, Le Chatelier E <em>et al.<\/em>\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em>, 2 December 2015. DOI: 10.1038\/nature15766<\/p>\n","source_link_url":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/nature15766"}],"vf_locked":false,"featured":false,"color":"#007B53","show_featured_image":false,"in_this_article":false,"youtube_url":"","mp4_url":"","video_caption":"","translations":false,"press_contact":"EMBL Generic"},"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Drugging bacteria | EMBL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Commonly used diabetes drug metformin impacts gut bacteria more than disease itself\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drugging bacteria | EMBL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Commonly used diabetes drug metformin impacts gut bacteria more than disease itself\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"EMBL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/embl.org\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-12-02T18:00:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-19T14:02:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1512-drugging-bacteria-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"620\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"425\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sonia Furtado Neves\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Aur_ora\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@embl\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sonia Furtado Neves\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sonia Furtado Neves\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d926199a955624b44dda296f396c5e68\"},\"headline\":\"Drugging bacteria\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-12-02T18:00:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-04-19T14:02:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/\"},\"wordCount\":628,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1512-drugging-bacteria-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"bioinformatics\",\"genomics\",\"health\",\"heidelberg\",\"press release\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Science\",\"Science &amp; Technology\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/\",\"name\":\"Drugging bacteria | EMBL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1512-drugging-bacteria-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-12-02T18:00:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-04-19T14:02:45+00:00\",\"description\":\"Commonly used diabetes drug metformin impacts gut bacteria more than disease itself\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1512-drugging-bacteria-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1512-drugging-bacteria-1.jpg\",\"width\":620,\"height\":425,\"caption\":\"Gut bacteria are more affected by metformin than by the type-2 diabetes it is prescribed to treat. IMAGE: Courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (BY-NC-SA)\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"European Molecular Biology Laboratory News\",\"description\":\"News from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"alternateName\":\"EMBL News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"European Molecular Biology Laboratory\",\"alternateName\":\"EMBL\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EMBL_logo_colour-1-300x144-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EMBL_logo_colour-1-300x144-1.png\",\"width\":300,\"height\":144,\"caption\":\"European Molecular Biology Laboratory\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/embl.org\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/embl\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embl_org\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/15813\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/emblmedia\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d926199a955624b44dda296f396c5e68\",\"name\":\"Sonia Furtado Neves\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/85ae4046e9b9b00d1fbd909d6541dc5522ea35db24faaf4b2a5ebcc56dd4846f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/85ae4046e9b9b00d1fbd909d6541dc5522ea35db24faaf4b2a5ebcc56dd4846f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Sonia Furtado Neves\"},\"description\":\"Sonia Furtado Neves is EMBL's Core Content Manager and Press Officer. The world never ceases to stun her, and she loves sharing that awe, wonder and amazement.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/x.com\/Aur_ora\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/author\/sonia\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Drugging bacteria | EMBL","description":"Commonly used diabetes drug metformin impacts gut bacteria more than disease itself","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Drugging bacteria | EMBL","og_description":"Commonly used diabetes drug metformin impacts gut bacteria more than disease itself","og_url":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/","og_site_name":"EMBL","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/embl.org\/","article_published_time":"2015-12-02T18:00:25+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-04-19T14:02:45+00:00","og_image":[{"width":620,"height":425,"url":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1512-drugging-bacteria-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Sonia Furtado Neves","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Aur_ora","twitter_site":"@embl","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Sonia Furtado Neves","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/"},"author":{"name":"Sonia Furtado Neves","@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d926199a955624b44dda296f396c5e68"},"headline":"Drugging bacteria","datePublished":"2015-12-02T18:00:25+00:00","dateModified":"2024-04-19T14:02:45+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/"},"wordCount":628,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1512-drugging-bacteria-1.jpg","keywords":["bioinformatics","genomics","health","heidelberg","press release"],"articleSection":["Science","Science &amp; Technology"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/","url":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/","name":"Drugging bacteria | EMBL","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1512-drugging-bacteria-1.jpg","datePublished":"2015-12-02T18:00:25+00:00","dateModified":"2024-04-19T14:02:45+00:00","description":"Commonly used diabetes drug metformin impacts gut bacteria more than disease itself","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1512-drugging-bacteria\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1512-drugging-bacteria-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1512-drugging-bacteria-1.jpg","width":620,"height":425,"caption":"Gut bacteria are more affected by metformin than by the type-2 diabetes it is prescribed to treat. IMAGE: Courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (BY-NC-SA)"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/","name":"European Molecular Biology Laboratory News","description":"News from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#organization"},"alternateName":"EMBL News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#organization","name":"European Molecular Biology Laboratory","alternateName":"EMBL","url":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EMBL_logo_colour-1-300x144-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EMBL_logo_colour-1-300x144-1.png","width":300,"height":144,"caption":"European Molecular Biology Laboratory"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/embl.org\/","https:\/\/x.com\/embl","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embl_org\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/15813\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/emblmedia\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d926199a955624b44dda296f396c5e68","name":"Sonia Furtado Neves","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/85ae4046e9b9b00d1fbd909d6541dc5522ea35db24faaf4b2a5ebcc56dd4846f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/85ae4046e9b9b00d1fbd909d6541dc5522ea35db24faaf4b2a5ebcc56dd4846f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Sonia Furtado Neves"},"description":"Sonia Furtado Neves is EMBL's Core Content Manager and Press Officer. The world never ceases to stun her, and she loves sharing that awe, wonder and amazement.","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/Aur_ora"],"url":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/author\/sonia\/"}]}},"field_target_display":"embl","field_article_language":{"value":"english","label":"English"},"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1512-drugging-bacteria-1.jpg","featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1512-drugging-bacteria-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6207"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24400,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions\/24400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6207"},{"taxonomy":"embl_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embl_taxonomy?post=6207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}