The Ancestral Human Microbiome - Adventures in Genomics

Опубликовано: 31 Июль 2015
на канале: Illumina

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There is an epidemic of obesity and chronic inflammatory disorders in urban, western societies.
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Modern lifestyles are very different from those of our hunter-gatherer ancestors whose microbiomes had millions of years to adapt to their diet and environment. If scientists can unravel the secrets of these microbiomes, it could revolutionize how we treat diseases like obesity and inflammatory disorders, which result from our modern lifestyles.

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Cecil Lewis at the University of Oklahoma --
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