The green rooms have a microbiome that closely maps to the surrounding area outside.
For more background, see this piece on the microbiome project I wrote in 2009.
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What the microbiome project did was lay the groundwork so that future discoveries can be made.
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Jeremy Nicholson of Imperial College London is exploring both the microbiome and the metabolome.
The microbiome does many jobs in exchange for the raw materials and shelter its host provides.
Babies who are born via C-section have a different microbiome in their gastrointestinal tract, Johnson said.
That is the microbiome and it covers the trillions of bacteria that treat people as their home.
But now, there's such a growing interest in the microbiome and gut bacteria, people are now isolating organisms.
Babies born through C-section have bacteria in their gut that more closely resembles their mother's skin microbiome, Johnson said.
If an upset microbiome causes illness, settling it down might effect a cure.
This alone shows how closely host and microbiome have co-evolved over the years.
An alien bug that causes diarrhoea, for instance, is as much an enemy of the microbiome as of the host.
If an unusual microbiome leads to the gut needing extra sulphur, the brain may pay the price by developing abnormally.
Perhaps the most striking claim, however, for links between the microbiome and human health has to do with the brain.
Anywhere you look and everything you touch comes with its own microbiome.
The microbiome also makes vitamins, notably B2, B12 and folic acid.
America's National Institutes of Health, which he heads, is backing yet another of genomics' big collaborative efforts, the Human Microbiome Project, to help put that right.
People will begin to hear terms such as regression, microbiome, epilepsy, febrile seizures, epilepsy, signalling pathways , inflammation , immune system dysfunction , autoimmune diseases, apopotosis .
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"We need to understand better what the normal microbiome is like and what happens to it when it changes to cause or influence disease, " Dr. Green said.
The microbiome, made much easier to study by new DNA-sequencing technology (which lets you distinguish between bugs without having to grow them on Petri dishes), is thus a trendy area of science.
It is possible that long-term neglect of the microbes within is being replaced by excessive respect, and that some of the medical importance now being imputed to the microbiome may prove misplaced.
For all the talk of superorganisms (and despite the yuck factor of what is being moved from one body to another), transplanting a microbiome is far easier than transplanting a heart or a kidney.
Future research will look at how the microbiome is "established in infants and maintained throughout life, " said Bruce Birren, co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Less fancifully, the Human Microbiome Project is in the stage the human genome project was a decade ago, when all that was really available was a single reference genome built from the DNA of anonymous volunteers.
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"This gives us a reference set of genes and microbes from healthy individuals, " said James Versalovic, director of the Texas Children's Microbiome Center at Baylor College of Medicine and one of the researchers on the project.
In the screenshot below, Green has modeled how the microbiome differs between two kinds of classrooms, one that keeps its louvers open at night to let out the still air (green) and one that keeps its louvers shut (blue).
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