01 Nov 2016

Making the microbiome part of precision medicine

A growing body of research shows the

01 Nov 2016

A growing body of research shows the microbiome–the community of bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microorganisms living in the body, mostly in the digestive tract–plays a crucial role in human health and disease. Because of its influence on disease states and response to treatments, write Thomas Kuntz, a PhD student in the Department of Chemistry, and Jack Gilbert, PhD, Faculty Director of the Microbiome Center at the University of Chicago, the microbiome should play a crucial role in the field of personalized medicine, which has been dominated thus far by genetics.

“Ultimately, the microbiome must become an integral part of precision medicine as a whole, since so much of human functioning and metabolism is dependent upon it.”

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