{"id":32731,"date":"2018-10-29T16:10:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32731"},"modified":"2018-10-29T16:10:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:40:50","slug":"needed-noahs-ark-for-microbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/needed-noahs-ark-for-microbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Needed: Noah\u2019s Ark for microbes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Needed: Noah\u2019s Ark for microbes <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. Scientists have warned that humanity is facing a health crisis as many of the beneficial microbes that inhabit people\u2019s bodies are being eradicated by antibiotics and processed diets.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    1. In a paper published in the journal \u2018Science\u2019 scientists laid out their ambitious vision to deal with a problem of preserving human microbiota which is compared to climate change in severity.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      3.Scientists noted that industrialisation is strongly linked with a decline in microbiota diversity. For example, hunter gatherers living in remote Amazonian villages had twice the number of microbes living in their guts as the average American.<\/p>\n

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      1. To preserve the microscopic life for future generations, scientists have called for a \u201cNoah\u2019s Ark\u201d of germs<\/strong> to be collected from people in untouched corners of the world who have not been impacted by modern society.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        5.The model for such a scheme is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault<\/strong>, a bank storing crops and plants from around the world to prepare for a doomsday scenario.<\/p>\n

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        1. The scientists also noted that socalled biobanking initiatives <\/strong>are springing up in research institutions around the world, but most so far have only focused on samples from industrialised nations.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          1. Significance:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n