Microbiome and Human Health: Current Understanding, Engineering, and Enabling Technologies

The human microbiome is composed of a collection of dynamic microbial communities that inhabit various anatomical locations in the body. Accordingly, the coevolution of the microbiome with the host has resulted in these communities playing a profound role in promoting human health. Consequently, perturbations in the human microbiome can cause or exacerbate several diseases. In this Review, we present our current understanding of the relationship between human health and disease development, focusing on the microbiomes found across the digestive, respiratory, urinary, and reproductive systems as well as the skin. We further discuss various strategies by which the composition and function of the human microbiome can be modulated to exert a therapeutic effect on the host. Finally, we examine technologies such as multiomics approaches and cellular reprogramming of microbes that can enable significant advancements in microbiome research and engineering.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Chemical Reviews

• Publication date

  2022-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00431PMID 36317983PMCID 9837825
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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