Biomarkers for the 21st century: listening to the microbiome.

@article{Dietert2015BiomarkersFT,
  title={Biomarkers for the 21st century: listening to the microbiome.},
  author={Rodney Dietert and Ellen Kovner Silbergeld},
  journal={Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology},
  year={2015},
  volume={144 2},
  pages={
          208-16
        }
}
  • R. Dietert, E. Silbergeld
  • Published 1 April 2015
  • Biology
  • Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology
The field of environmental research has benefited greatly from the concept of biomarkers, which originally expanded our thinking by opening the "black box" between environmental exposures and manifestations of disease and dysfunction in exposed populations, as laid out in a highly influential article published in 1987 by an expert committee convened by the National Research Council. Advances in biomedical research now challenge us to revise this concept to include the microbiome as a critical… 
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