The Biome Squad
This issue of Physician Outlook highlights just some of the exciting research that was presented at the historic and exclusive Malibu Microbiome Meeting in March of 2021, which brought together pioneering leaders from across the globe in the vast burgeoning field of Gut Microbiome Science. The study of the human intestinal microbiome and the role that it plays in medicine is in its infancy. It is truly the next frontier of medicine.
We as physicians spend many years mastering the principles of basic science before we are granted the privilege of practicing medicine. Understanding the complexity of the microbiome requires a solid understanding of the fields of both cellular and molecular biology, and it is only fitting that we begin our journey at the very beginning, at the very core of basic science: the cell, the basic membrane-bound entity that houses the fundamental molecules from which ALL living things are composed.
