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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Cheng Xi, Huigary. Peer reviewers: CodeSwitch.
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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Wesley.yim, Bpatterson1993, Clin93.
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The statements about total microbe counts require better sourcing
News articles don't suffice for biomedical content sourcing. The sole medical source for that statement is a primary source, which, per WP:MEDRS, should not be used to contradict assertions about microbe counts from review articles (e.g., [1] states 100 trillion). Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 04:08, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
- Seppi333 this resource is a review in Nature and would seem to suffice. (Altmäe, S., Franasiak, J.M. & Mändar, R. The seminal microbiome in health and disease. Nat Rev Urol 16, 703–721 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-019-0250-y) Should I make the change? AshLin (talk) 03:15, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
Remove the 10:1 myth from the article
Repeating myths even when cushioned in a negative will cause some skim readers to take away the myth rather than the truth. So, don't discuss the 10:1 myth at length in the Relative numbers section. Just remove and replace by what we now know is closer to the truth: human to bacteria at around 1:1 with bacteria contributing no significant amount of weight because the cells are tiny (200g for 70kg human). See Sender 2016 PLoS Biology. — J.S.talk 16:30, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
Genetic modification of bacteria, ... in gastrointestinal tract
Can the human microbiome (gastrointestinal tract) be genetically modified to destroy microplastics that have been consumed ? Might be possible I think as other organisms also have mechanisms to break down (certain) plastics, see Plastisphere#Degradation_by_organisms. This could then benefit health as the microplastics no longer linger in the body (and microplastics can trigger certain cancers). Perhaps info on that can be added to article. --Genetics4good (talk) 08:34, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
Add a reference or bibliography
A reference or bibliography for ‘turtles all the way down’, by John Green for this article being quoted many times. I would try and do this although this is my first time and I would not like to mess up on an important article. Megabits13 (talk) 20:56, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Megabits13