New studies emerge daily on the effect of the human microbiome on human health: colon cancer, ulcers, and cognitive conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease have been associated with the communities of microbes that live in our bodies. However, global research into the human microbiome is heavily biased in favor of wealthy countries such as the United States and United Kingdom, according to a study publishing February 15th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Richard Abdill, Elizabeth Adamowicz and Ran Blekhman at the University of Minnesota.
