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(Figure: https://draxe.com/microbiome/)</p> <p><br />&nbsp;Microbiota is a collection or community of microbes. We humans have trillions of microbes and thought microbes as things to gotten rid of. Indeed, those are essential for human development, immunity and nutrition. Since researchers found out that the microbes in our body keep us healthy, they realized the significance of studying the genetic material of microbes, which is microbiome. Nowadays, researchers have shown that such microbial communities may highly affect some health conditions such as depression, obesity, acne, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.</p> <p><br />&nbsp;Two interesting studies were published on Nature. &ldquo;Maternal gut bacteria promote neurodevelopmental abnormalities in mouse offspring&rdquo; and &ldquo;Reversing behavioural abnormalities in mice exposed to maternal inflammation&rdquo; showed that there might be some relations between the maternal gut bacteria(microbe) and offspring&rsquo;s neurodevelopmental abnormalities. According to the paper, interleukin-17a(IL-17a) produced by T helper 17(TH17) cells in pregnant mice induces behavioural and corticaal abnormalities in the offsprin exposed to maternal immune activation.&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;The paper didn&rsquo;t found out the relationship between micorbe and disease in human body, but still shows that the study of microbiome is essential. Worldwide research has been started as mapping the human microbiome, and one of thoses is Human Microbiome Project(HMP). Its goal was to identify and characterize the microorganisms in association with health or disease of human. Through this project, researchers analyzed base pairs of 178 kinds of micobes in human. They also found new 30,000 microbiome, and it shows that there are remaining tasks to reveal.</p>