{"id":19286,"date":"2015-11-12T15:46:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T23:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/your-gut-may-be-home-to-an-entirely-new-form-of-life"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:24:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:24:40","slug":"your-gut-may-be-home-to-an-entirely-new-form-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/your-gut-may-be-home-to-an-entirely-new-form-of-life","title":{"rendered":"Your Gut May Be Home to an Entirely New Form of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-gut-may-be-home-to-an-entirely-new-form-of-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Might be a good start point for some new longevity research.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new genetic analysis of human gut bacteria is turning up some really weird critters\u2014so weird, in fact, that some biologists are speculating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22830474-800-mystery-microbes-in-our-gut-could-be-a-whole-new-form-of-life\/?utm_source=NSNS\" target=\"_blank\">we\u2019ve found an entirely new domain of life<\/a>. We should take that possibility with a healthy dose of skepticism. But here\u2019s why it\u2019s even being discussed.<\/p>\n<p>In the past ten years, new genomic technologies have, for the first time, enabled scientists to explore our microbiome\u2014that trove of invisible critters that live on us and in us. Microbiome research is quite literally rewriting the textbooks on human biology, as we learn that everything from our mouths to our intestines to our skin is, in fact a complex and diverse ecosystem. Hell, we\u2019re even surrounded in a <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/were-all-surrounded-by-a-personal-cloud-of-bacteria-1732341184\">personal cloud of bacteria<\/a>. By some estimates, the human cells in your body are vastly outnumbered by microbes.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we\u2019ve come to appreciate just how ubiquitous our microbial tenants are, we\u2019re starting to drill deeper and learn their identities. And that\u2019s led to some surprises. For one, a lot of the bugs living in our gut are totally distinct from anything we\u2019ve encountered before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/your-gut-may-be-home-to-an-entirely-new-form-of-life-1742212794?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Might be a good start point for some new longevity research. A new genetic analysis of human gut bacteria is turning up some really weird critters\u2014so weird, in fact, that some biologists are speculating we\u2019ve found an entirely new domain of life. We should take that possibility with a healthy dose of skepticism. But here\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,1495,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-health","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63715,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19286\/revisions\/63715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}