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SUBMITTER: Inkpen SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6469925 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Advances in microbiomics have changed the way in which many researchers think about health and disease. These changes have also raised a number of philosophical questions around these topics, such as the types of living systems to which these concepts can be applied. Here, I discuss the human microbiome from two perspectives: the first treats the microbiome as part of a larger system that includes the human; the second treats the microbiome as an independent ecosystem that provides services to h ...[more]