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Samuel Hyde

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Understanding the gastrointestinal microbiome has become a frontier in understanding gut health and is being utilized for diagnostics and therapy. Current research has found many environmental factors which influence the microbiome including sleep, stress, diet, smoking, exercise, and age. And it has also been correlated with many diseases such as IBD, cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, and other diseases. Many methods have been used to analyze the microbiome such as fecal analysis, endoscopy, colonoscopy, and capsule endoscopy. The gastrointestinal microbiome is complex and has temporal as well as spatial variances. We review the advantages and limitations of various technologies and techniques while also encouraging more research to be done to collect samples while reducing cost and invasiveness but increasing spatial and temporal information.

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Purdue University / 2023

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Samuel Hyde