Microbes Matter: Metagenomics in Decoding the Microbial World for Modern Applications
What Is a Microbiome? “Microbiome” has become incredibly popular these days. Though it may sound like a relatively new concept, it has been there in the early days of microbial ecology, since the first report of the bacteria (by Antony van Leeuwenhoek, in 1683). In 2001, a microbiologist and Nobel Laureate, Joshua Lederberg, coined the […]