As industrialized lifestyles threaten microbial diversity, a new International effort will preserve gut microbes from the world’s remotest regions.
https://www.broadinstitute.org/news/researchers-aim-catalogue-global-microbiomes
Populations around the world harbor a diversity of microbiomes that we haven't begun to understand. @globalmicrobiom is reaching around the globe to bring that diversity to light. https://t.co/pNsng24twj pic.twitter.com/QIsA4IIgDC
— Broad Institute (@broadinstitute) July 27, 2018
.@globalmicrobiom is in a race to catalog & study the diversity of the world's microbiomes before they disappear: https://t.co/2S6Kn9TpZh pic.twitter.com/BkvIfBmqcf
— Broad Institute (@broadinstitute) July 26, 2018
"There’s an incredible amount of gut microbial diversity out there … associated with … traditional lifestyles," @ejalm says, talking about @globalmicrobiom. "Once urbanization and industrialization happen, this huge reservoir of biodiversity will essentially be lost." pic.twitter.com/F3rdjoW35t
— Broad Institute (@broadinstitute) July 26, 2018