In 2019, there have been substantial advances in our understanding of the gut microbiome.
Key developments include an improved gut-on-a-chip system, a search for small proteins …

The gastrointestinal tract is home to nearly a tril-lion microbes that are comprised of bacteria,
viruses, fungi, and other microorganisms which are collectively called the gut microbiome …

After the completion of the Human Genome Project in April 2003, scientists realize that
decoding human genome is not enough to understand human biology because there are …

The protective intestinal epithelial barrier is constantly exposed to more than 100 trillion
commensal microorganisms (bacteria, archaea, viruses, and fungi), ie, the microbiome …

Gut microbiome research has bloomed over the past 15 years. We have learnt a lot about
the complex microbial communities that colonize our intestine. Promising avenues of …

Studies of the community of bacteria in the human intestine have had a major impact on
gastroenterology research in the last decade. As summarized elsewhere in this issue, it is …

Microbial colonization of intestine plays an important role in many aspects of human health.
The growing availability of microbial genome sequences and advances in complementary …

The human gastrointestinal tract hosts a large number of microbial cells which exceed their
mammalian counterparts by approximately 3-fold. The genes expressed by these …

In the past decades the view of the gut microbiota has transformed from fighting the bad
bugs with antibiotics to protecting the good bugs that function as a defense barrier and …

In the era of high throughput DNA sequencing technologies, there has been an explosion in
the last 10 years of our knowledge of human microbiomes, especially the gut microbiome …