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   White House Begins New National Microbiome Initiative To Understand Benefits   
   Of Bacteria    
      
      
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   White House Begins New National Microbiome Initiative To Understand Benefits   
   Of Bacteria    
   By Catherine Cabral-Isabedra | May 14, 2016 08:34 AM EDT    
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   The White House announced the launch of a new National Microbiome Initiative.   
   The program will bring together scientists from different organizations to   
   study human microbiomes and how they can address several diseases. (Photo :   
   Gerd Altmann | Pixabay)    
   In an attempt to understand the riddles of science, the White House will now   
   begin a National Microbiome Initiative, a program that aims to unify all   
   microbe culture research.    
      
   In October 2015, more than 40 scientists from different scientific backgrounds   
   came together and proposed the creation of a Unified Microbiome Initiative   
   Consortium (UMIC). The initiative would bring together cutting-edge research   
   and discoveries that    
   would benefit health care, the environment and even create renewable energy.    
      
   "Microbes are everywhere," said Pamela Silver, a Harvard's Wyss Institute for   
   Biologically Inspired Engineering researcher. "Therefore understanding   
   microbiomes, whther they be the ones that live in and on our bodies or the   
   ones in the environment, is    
   essential to understanding life."    
      
   The White House announced the initiative on May 13 to jumpstart microbe   
   research that would encompass all those that are found in animals, air,   
   plants, soil and water. The government is hoping that gaining more information   
   would give insight into how to    
   fight disease, increase food production, and fight climate change.    
      
      
   The National Microbiome Initiative (PDF) will work with other organizations   
   interested in the research, including University of Michigan and Juvenile   
   Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), One Codex, The BioCollective, the   
   University of California, and    
   Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The program will have a total of $521   
   million in funding, with $121 million from the federal government and $400   
   million funding from private organizations.    
      
      
   While most people think that bacteria cause decay and death, there exists a   
   huge trove of good microbes that are essential to human existence. White House   
   Office of Science and Technology associate director for science Jo Handelsman   
   explained that life    
   on land became possible because ancient ocean-dwelling microbes released   
   oxygen into the atmosphere.    
      
      
   Handelsman explained that humans need bacteria to survive.    
      
   "We wouldn't be here without these bacteria," said Handelsman. "Our health,   
   our behavior and even our longevity are all affected by these bacteria."    
      
   Alterations in human microbiomes cause diseases, including allergies, asthma,   
   autism, diabetes, and even obesity, said Microbiology Professor Martin Blaser,   
   who also serves as director of the New York University Langone Medical   
   Center's Human Microbiome    
   Program. When people take antibiotics to cure diseases, good bacteria is also   
   eliminated along with the bad bacteria.    
      
   Scientists still need to learn from these microbiomes.    
      
   A Tech Times' report has stated about 99.999 percent of the 1 trillion   
   microbial species in the world are yet to be discovered.    
      
   With the program, the scientists are hoping to map the microbes, alter them,   
   and identify how it can help address some of the maladies that affect human   
   existence.    
      
   Some experts believe that understanding microbiomes could also help solve   
   crimes. Forensic scientists can use the microbial trail left by people as they   
   go to places, much like how detectives solve crime using DNA and fingerprints   
   left behind by    
   criminals.    
      
      
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