| The woes of the germ-free mouse vividly show just how invaluable the microbiome is. |
| But the microbiome is medically accessible and manipulable in a way that the human genome is not. |
| It is important to think of our bodies as a summation of the metabolic capabilities provided by our own genome and the microbiome. |
| Scientists have long known that the human body coexists with trillions of individual germs, what they call the microbiome. |
| We should be cautious of the risk that microbiome initiative might encounter the same backlash. |
| Thwaites thought, first, of adding the goat's grass-digesting microbiome to his own through a fecal transplant. |
