First look at gut microbes in an American Indian community
Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 15:12
in Biology & Nature
Very little is known about how the diversity of gut microbes might vary among different groups of people, and whether and how those variations might play into well-recognized health disparities. Now, researchers have taken a step toward filling those gaps with the first descriptions of the gut microbiomes of individuals in a Native-American community.