KEYNOTE:  Larry Smarr
Channel: i2b2 tranSMART Foundation
Date: 21/11/2016

Quantifying the Evolution of a Human Body

To truly understand the state of the human body in health or disease, we now realize that we must consider a much more complex system than medical science considered heretofore. This is because we now know that the human body is host to a time-varying microbial ecology containing ten times the number of DNA-bearing cells as in the human body and these microbes contain 100 times the number of DNA genes that our human DNA does.