Article
Of genes and microbes: solving the intricacies in host genomes.
Protein & cell - 1 May 2018
Wang Jun, Chen Liang, Zhao Na, Xu Xizhan, Xu Yakun, Zhu Baoli
Abstract excerpt
Microbiome research is a quickly developing field in biomedical research, and we have witnessed its potential in understanding the physiology, metabolism and immunology, its critical role in understanding the health and disease of the host, and its vast capacity in disease prediction, intervention and treatment. However, many of the fundamental questions still need to be addressed, including the shaping forces of...
Topics
- Animals
- Biomedical Research
- Genes
- Genetic Variation
- Genome
- Host-Pathogen Interactions
- Humans
- Metagenomics
- Microbiota
