ArticleMicrobiome2017
Communicating the promise, risks, and ethics of large-scale, open space microbiome and metagenome research.
Article in Microbiome, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
- An Overview of the Association of the Urinary Tract Microbiome with Various Diseases and Implications for Therapeutics.Mini reviews in medicinal chemistry · 2025Review
- Microbiome Geographic Population Structure (mGPS) Detects Fine-Scale Geography.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Reconstruction of the personal information from human genome reads in gut metagenome sequencing data.Nature microbiology · 2023Article
- Ethical challenges in conducting and the clinical application of human microbiome research.Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine · 2023Article
- The microbial biodiversity at the archeological site of Tel Megiddo (Israel).Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
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- Microbiome ethics, guiding principles for microbiome research, use and knowledge management.Environmental microbiome · 2022Article
- It's a Long Way to the Tap: Microbiome and DNA-Based Omics at the Core of Drinking Water Quality.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
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- The impact of cross-kingdom molecular forensics on genetic privacy.Microbiome · 2021Article
- The views of pregnant women in New Zealand on vaginal seeding: a mixed-methods study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Article
- Seven facts and five initiatives for gut microbiome research.Protein & cell · 2020Review
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- Forensic Applications of Microbiomics: A Review.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Review
- Next-Generation Sequencing Strategies.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2019Review
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Abstract
The public commonly associates microorganisms with pathogens. This suspicion of microorganisms is understandable, as historically microorganisms have killed more humans than any other agent while remaining largely unknown until the late seventeenth century with the works of van Leeuwenhoek and Kircher. Despite our improved understanding regarding microorganisms, the general public are apt to think of diseases rather than of the majority of harmless or beneficial species that inhabit our bodies and the built and natural environment. As long as microbiome research was confined to labs, the public's exposure to microbiology was limited. The recent launch of global microbiome surveys, such as the Earth Microbiome Project and MetaSUB (Metagenomics and Metadesign of Subways and Urban Biomes) project, has raised ethical, financial, feasibility, and sustainability concerns as to the public's level of understanding and potential reaction to the findings, which, done improperly, risk negative implications for ongoing and future investigations, but done correctly, can facilitate a new vision of "smart cities." To facilitate improved future research, we describe here the major concerns that our discussions with ethics committees, community leaders, and government officials have raised, and we expound on how to address them. We further discuss ethical considerations of microbiome surveys and provide practical recommendations for public engagement.
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