{"id":91431,"date":"2019-05-30T02:08:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T09:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/priorities-for-the-next-10-years-of-human-microbiome-research"},"modified":"2019-05-30T02:08:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T09:08:38","slug":"priorities-for-the-next-10-years-of-human-microbiome-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/priorities-for-the-next-10-years-of-human-microbiome-research","title":{"rendered":"Priorities for the next 10 years of human microbiome research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/priorities-for-the-next-10-years-of-human-microbiome-research2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my view, most of the research so far has placed too much emphasis on cataloguing species names. We\u2019ve been characterizing the human microbiome as if it were a relatively fixed property to be mapped and manipulated \u2014 one that is separate from the rest of the body. In fact, I think that interventions that could help to treat conditions such as diabetes, cancer and autoimmune diseases will be discovered only if we move beyond species catalogues and begin to understand the complex and mutable ecological and evolutionary relationships that microbes have with each other and with their hosts.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The dream of microbiome-based medicine requires a fresh approach \u2014 an ecological and evolutionary understanding of host-microbe interactions \u2014 argues Lita Proctor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-01654-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my view, most of the research so far has placed too much emphasis on cataloguing species names. We\u2019ve been characterizing the human microbiome as if it were a relatively fixed property to be mapped and manipulated \u2014 one that is separate from the rest of the body. In fact, I think that interventions that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91431","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}