The healthy microbe community in the sample then begins to take over and populate the patient's gut, restoring a balanced microbiome.
Not exact matches
But research like this, he says, «gives us an opportunity to look at how
healthy people share their whole
communities of
microbes, because that's really what's going on.
Andrew Bissett, Project Leader for «
Microbes and
healthy waterways», contributed to a recent publication in Nature Ecology and Evolution that investigated the legacy of past climates on the current distribution of soil microbial
communities.
They are trying to understand what makes a
healthy microbiome, including what
microbes are present and what those
microbes are doing, as well as how microbiomes change over time, how such
communities stay balanced and how changes to microbiomes impact human or environmental health.
The microbiome is a
community of
healthy bacteria, viruses, archaea, and eukaryotic
microbes that live on our skin and inside our body.