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My Digital Gut: Making Nutrition and Healthcare Personalized, Predictive, and Preventive

By May 3, 2024No Comments

ISB Associate Professor Dr. Sean Gibbons delivered a Research Roundtable presentation and highlighted human gut microbiome research being conducted in his lab, including the development of a new tool called My Digital Gut. Watch his presentation by clicking play on the video above.

The human microbiome – the trillions of microbial cells that live on and in our bodies – is unique to everyone. Even identical twins have microbiome compositions that differ widely.

ISB Associate Professor Dr. Sean Gibbons has spent the past few years looking at how individuals respond differently to foods and exploring how we can leverage what we know about the microbiome to predict that variation.