Comparison Of Microbial Communities In Average, Obese, Gastric Bypass Subjects Offers Clues To Body Weight Differences

In terms of diversity and sheer numbers, the microbes occupying the human gut easily dwarf the billions of people inhabiting the Earth. Numbering in the tens of trillions and representing many thousands of distinct genetic families, this microbiome, as it’s called, helps the body perform a variety of regulatory and digestive functions, many still poorly understood.

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Filed under: GastroIntestinal / Gastroentorology on January 25th, 2009