This NOW product has been designed to supply a balanced spectrum of beneficial bacteria found in human intestinal tracts. (nowfoods.com)
Although my background and training was in environmental microbiology, I contacted a lab at the medical school at Washington University that was just starting to use techniques developed by environmental microbiologists to study microbes inhabiting the human intestinal tract. (sciencemag.org)
Two of the largest efforts are the Human Microbiome Project, funded by the National Institutes of Health (See «Your Microbial Menagerie,» page 4), and the European Union's Metagenomics of the Human Intestinal Tract. (discovermagazine.com)