Douglas Guzior

Douglas Guzior

Gut Microbiologist, Biochemist, and Data Scientist.

Doctoral candidate at Michigan State University, Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology under the guidance of Robert A. Quinn.

A multi-omic trip through the human gut

Published in Nature Metabolism, 2023

Recommended citation: Quinn RA, Martin C, Guzior DV. 2023. A multi-omic trip through the human gut. Nat Metab 5(5): 720–721. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-023-00773-3

Excerpt

Most of human microbiome research has focused on analysing faecal samples, which represent the final stop of the digestive journey. Two recent articles use a novel sampling approach to capture luminal content at different points during digestion and reveal that the analysis of faecal samples tells only a fraction of the story.