While 2017 could easily have been called the "Year of Gut Health," 2018 promises to see that focus intensify
This fall, it was announced in Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News that researchers were able to create a 3D map of the gut microbiome. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, allowed the researchers to “see exactly how the bacteria were arranged relative to each other and relative to landmarks like food and host tissue.”
“[I]t is not enough to know just which microbes are present,” explained Gary Borisy, PhD, one of the senior research investigators. “We must also learn what they are doing, who they are ‘talking’ to, and why. Part of the answer to that problem is to figure out who is next to who and who is next to what.”