Mapping the healthy human microbiome

Human beings are ecosystems on two legs, each of us carrying enough microbes to outnumber our human cells by 10 to 1 and our genes by even more. The Human Microbiome Project Consortium has for the first time answered two fundamental questions about the microbiota that healthy humans carry: Who's there and what are they doing?

Pas nouveau mais c'est un domaine en pleine expansion.

Not new but microbiome studies are more and more numerous.