{"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":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">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 &#8220;beneficial&#8221; bacteria. The US National Institutes of Health recently completed a $115m project investigating the microbiome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Story Source:<\/p>\n<p>The above story is reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ubiome-project-sequence-bacteria?CMP=twt_fd\">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":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/uBiome Project.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">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&#8217; 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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-c77-bionicengineering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_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}]}}