A gene catalogue of the human gut microbiome
An international group of researchers has established a catalogue of the human gut microbiome. The human digestive system housed millions of bacteria which are important for a healthy life. However, the modern World faces problems like obesity and it is important to understand processes happening in microbes in patients. The group has investigated microbial genes in the materials taken from 124 individuals of Nordic and Mediterranean origin suffering from overweight and obese, as well as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). They aimed to cover prevalent intestinalmicrobial genes and in the end the 3.3 million microbial (.86% of prevalent genes in ...