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    From promotion to management: The wide impact of bacteria on cancer and its treatment
    with Ernesto Perez-Chanona
    Bioessays 36 (7): 658-664. 2014.
    In humans, the intestine is the major reservoir of microbes. Although the intestinal microbial community exists in a state of homeostasis called eubiosis, environmental and genetics factors can lead to microbial perturbation or dysbiosis, a state associated with various pathologies including inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and colorectal cancer (CRC). Dysbiotic microbiota is thought to contribute to the initiation and progression of CRC. At the opposite end of the spectrum, two recently publis…Read more