More genes in the human microbiome than stars in the observable universe

A team of US scientists is embarking on an immense project to catalog all the genes in the collective human microbiome. In the team's first published study an astounding 46 million genes have been chronicled from just 3,500 human microbiome samples. Half of those genes are unique to single human samples.

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Category: Science

Tags:

• Genetics
• Gut Bacteria
• Harvard
• Microbiome

from New Atlas (Gizmag) https://ift.tt/2N3sMzQ