{"id":29692,"date":"2020-07-19T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T14:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29692"},"modified":"2020-07-19T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T14:56:09","slug":"word-of-the-day-582","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/19\/word-of-the-day-582\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Transcriptomics<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That said, sometimes more than one gene that might be found in more than one type of bacteria can have the same function \u2014 that is, produce the same metabolite \u2014 in the gut. That means to really understand the effects of the gut microbiome, you don\u2019t just need to identify bacteria; you need to know what they\u2019re up to. For this reason, [USDA molecular biologist Mary] Kable\u2019s lab group at the USDA in California is turning to a method called transcriptomics, which, instead of identifying bacteria, identifies the bacteria\u2019s active genes. She\u2019s using this information as part of her big-picture approach to studying how healthy people can stay healthy and prevent disease. The end goal: personalized nutrition plans. [&#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/health\/stomachache-your-gut-bacteria-might-be-to-blame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stomachache? Your Gut Bacteria Might Be to Blame<\/a><\/em>,&#8221; <em>Anna Funk, <\/em><strong>Discover<\/strong><em> (July\/August, 2020)<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Genes are modulated by the epigenome, but they never mention that in the article. I wonder how they measure and compensate for that effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcriptomics: That said, sometimes more than one gene that might be found in more than one type of bacteria can have the same function \u2014 that is, produce the same metabolite \u2014 in the gut. That means to really understand the effects of the gut microbiome, you don\u2019t just need \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/19\/word-of-the-day-582\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29693,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29692\/revisions\/29693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}