(Continued from part 1) Why we are islands In the previous post we have seen how our bacterial population affects our weight and that by changing our dietary habits we can change the species composition in our guts. Also, we saw how a metagenomic analysis can lead to verifiable hypotheses: using a metagenomic analysis, Gordon’s [...]
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Every Man an Island, Pt. 2
By Iddo on January 26th, 2009
Every Man an Island, Pt. 1
By Iddo on January 25th, 2009
No man is an island, entire of itself — John Donne, Meditation XVII Scanning electron microscope images of B. thetaiotaomicron, a prominent human gut bacterium, and the intestine. From: Human Gut Hosts a Dynamically Evolving Microbial Ecosystem Gross L PLoS Biology Vol. 5, No. 7, e199 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050199 Only one out of ten cells in our [...]
