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The only way I see this being done is by running computer simulations. Knowing how complex our gut is, I'd say this can easily take another 100 years or so to g
by cosmodisk 7y ago
The only way I see this being done is by running computer simulations. Knowing how complex our gut is, I'd say this can easily take another 100 years or so to get to the point where we can understand it in full.
- sjg007 7y agoHuh? Just survey people’s microbiomes, run cultures and use the drugs in the feedstock.
- WalterSear 7y agoA number of human microbes aren't culturable yet.
- sjg007 7y agoI guess you do an in vivo post hoc analysis then.
- WalterSear 7y agoIn vivo bacterial population data isn't all that accessible yet either. Faecal bacterial samples have turned out to be poor representatives of the gut microbiome, so in vivo sampling requires endoscopy. Fwiw, there are multiple biomes to sample too, with different types of bacteria lining the intestinal walls and other kinds populating the crypts, for instance. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4837114/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4837114/