We all have a slightly different mix of microbes聽inside us Nobeastsofierce Science / Alamy
The microbes that live inside you hint more than your genes do about your likelihood of having health conditions ranging from asthma to cancer and schizophrenia, according to a new analysis.
The finding suggests that monitoring the ecosystems of聽bacteria, viruses, protozoa and聽fungi that live inside us could聽help diagnose or even prevent some conditions. 鈥淭hat鈥檚聽going to change medicine,鈥澛爏ays Braden Tierney at聽Harvard Medical School, who聽worked on the analysis.
However, it also raises privacy issues, because information about this microbiome…
Article amended on 20 January 2020
We corrected the number of conditions that the team looked at and the result.
