{"id":143,"date":"2013-02-18T17:53:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T17:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bioengineer.org\/ubiome-project\/"},"modified":"2013-10-29T07:41:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T07:41:01","slug":"ubiome-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/ubiome-project\/","title":{"rendered":"uBiome Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

The idea that the microbiome plays a more important role in human health has gathered momentum in the past decade.A key feature is that unlike our own DNA, it is not static: we can change its composition by adding “beneficial” bacteria. The US National Institutes of Health recently completed a $115m project investigating the microbiome.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The above story is reprinted from materials<\/a> provided by Guardian.co.uk. The original article was written byCharles Arthur, technology editor. IMAGE Credit: Dr David Phillips\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Jessica Richman, a PhD student at Oxford University, has raised more than $290,000 from over 1,300 people who have paid to take part in the uBiome project. The volunteers will provide samples from their ears, nose, mouth, genitals and gut. The microbes’ genomes will then be sequenced and correlated with the results of health surveys completed by the participants.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-c77-bionicengineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} BIOENGINEER.ORG

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