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From the Ted Talk by Jonathan Eisen: Meet your microbes


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And what the DNA sequencing technologies are allowing people to do now is do detailed studies of, say, 100 patients who have Crohn's disease and 100 people who don't have Crohn's disease. Or 100 people who took antibiotics when they were little, and 100 people who did not take antibiotics. And we can now start to compare the community of microbes and their genes and see if there are differences. And eventually we may be able to understand if they're not just correlative dcneerfiefs, but causative. Studies in model stsyems like msoue and other animals are also hilpneg do this, but popele are now using these technologies because they've gotten very cheap, to study the mibecors in and on a variety of people.

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And what the DNA sequencing technologies are allowing people to do now is do detailed studies of, say, 100 patients who have Crohn's disease and 100 people who don't have Crohn's disease. Or 100 people who took antibiotics when they were little, and 100 people who did not take antibiotics. And we can now start to compare the community of microbes and their genes and see if there are differences. And eventually we may be able to understand if they're not just correlative ___________, but causative. Studies in model _______ like _____ and other animals are also _______ do this, but ______ are now using these technologies because they've gotten very cheap, to study the ________ in and on a variety of people.

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  1. systems
  2. people
  3. helping
  4. differences
  5. mouse
  6. microbes

Original Text


And what the DNA sequencing technologies are allowing people to do now is do detailed studies of, say, 100 patients who have Crohn's disease and 100 people who don't have Crohn's disease. Or 100 people who took antibiotics when they were little, and 100 people who did not take antibiotics. And we can now start to compare the community of microbes and their genes and see if there are differences. And eventually we may be able to understand if they're not just correlative differences, but causative. Studies in model systems like mouse and other animals are also helping do this, but people are now using these technologies because they've gotten very cheap, to study the microbes in and on a variety of people.

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dna sequencing 4
risk factors 3
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human microbiome 2
microbial cloud 2
common practice 2
necrotizing enterocolitis 2



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  1. allowing
  2. animals
  3. antibiotics
  4. causative
  5. cheap
  6. community
  7. compare
  8. correlative
  9. detailed
  10. differences
  11. disease
  12. dna
  13. eventually
  14. genes
  15. helping
  16. microbes
  17. model
  18. mouse
  19. patients
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  21. sequencing
  22. start
  23. studies
  24. study
  25. systems
  26. technologies
  27. understand
  28. variety