It is an organ of the human body, about which we do not know much. However, the gut microbiota is a true ecosystem consisting of about 100,000 billion bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi that reside in our digestive tract and weigh between 1 and 2 kg.
It is to map this “terra incognita” that a massive global database aimed at analyzing 1 million microbiota has been launched. In France, the France Gut project, led by the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (Inrae) with the Paris (AP-HP) and Inserm hospitals, is looking for volunteers to analyze their feces. “For now, we only have samples collected from sick people. We have a lot to learn by characterizing the microbiota of healthy people.”At the launch of the project on Thursday, Joël Dore, director of research specializing in gut microbiota at Inrae, explained. Purposeful? Understand…
Source: Le Figaro
