So in a project funded by the Gates Foundation, what we're looking at is children in Malawi who have kwashiorkor, a profound form of malnutrition, and mice that get the kwashiorkor community transplanted into them lose 30 percent of their body mass in just three weeks, but we can restore their health by using  the same peanut butter-based supplement that is used for  the children in the clinic, and the mice that receive the community from the healthy identical twins of the kwashiorkor children do fine.
Nun proxecto financiado  pola Fundación Gates, estamos estudando a nenos de Malawi que padecen kwashiorkor, unha forma grave de desnutrición. Os ratos aos que se lles transplanta a comunidade do kwashiorkor perden o 30% da súa masa corporal en tan só tres semanas, pero podemos curalos usando o mesmo suplemento a base de manteiga de cacahuete que se emprega cos nenos na clínica. Os ratos que reciben a comunidade do xemelgo san dos nenos con kwashiorkor non teñen ningún problema.