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This is excellent and can only help to improve the (currently dismal) understanding of the gut biome. But, it only measures bacteria and archaea. To eukaryote
by marze 10y ago
This is excellent and can only help to improve the (currently dismal) understanding of the gut biome.
But, it only measures bacteria and archaea. To eukaryotes and fungi, it is blind. And those are obviously I'm important components of gut flora.
Since they can be measured fairly inexpensively with more conventional means, perhaps it would improve the science if they could charge double the $99, and get a basic correlated measure of common eukaryotes and fungi in each sample.
- blacksmith_tb 10y agoAnd viruses, too! I am very curious to find out what sorts of bacteriophages are part of the picture. In general we have some sense that actively changing the ratios of different bacterial species (e.g. with antibiotics, or fecal transplants) can address some health problems - but it's possible that a targeted phage might be another way to accomplish that as well. (edited for fuller thought)