Taking Stock of the Human Microbiome and Disease

• Published in: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 336; no. 6086; pp. 1246 - 1247
• Main Author: BALTER, MICHAEL
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Association for the Advancement of Science 08.06.2012; The American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Subjects: Autoimmune diseases; Biological taxonomies; Biomedical Research; Biomes; Communities; Dangerous; Disease; Funding; Genes; Genomes; Genomics; Health; Human; Humans; Immune systems; Intestinal diseases; Metagenome; Microbiota; Microorganisms; NEWS; Pathogens; Probiotics; Raw materials; Research Support as Topic; Sequence Analysis, DNA

Our bodies, inside and out, are teeming with trillions of microbes. Most of them are our friends, helping us to digest food, strengthen our immune systems, and keep dangerous enemy pathogens from invading our tissues and organs. Evidence is building that this resident community of microbes, called t...