In fact, we think that the first step to launching such a project should be the bringing together of
leading microbiome researchers from across the globe to discuss its goals.
Leading
microbiome researchers use the term «impoverished» to describe microbial communities that lack healthy numbers and diversity.
Rather than deciding that these microbes are just not species, which is one popular view,
microbiome researcher Seth Bordenstein suggests «just twisting the biological species concept ever so slightly.»
A study from the labs of
prominent microbiome researchers Jeff Gordon and Rob Knight published in 2009 found that the gut and heart may be connected through another organ: the liver.
Some microbiome researchers had suggested that this variation begins with differences in our genes; but a large - scale study conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science challenges this idea and provides evidence that the connection between microbiome and health may be even more important than we thought.
A UW — Madison committee of subject matter experts will review the proposals to identify those that hold the most promise for sustained research programs or galvanizing the community of
microbiome researchers.