Y. Vazquez-Baeza, A. Gonzalez, L. Smarr, D. McDonald, J. T. Morton, J. A. Navas-Molina, and R. Knight. Cell Host and Microbe, vol. 21, pp 7-10. (2017).
The exponential affordability of DNA sequencing technologies has enabled not only the
accessible and rapid sequencing of the human genome, but the opportunity to sequence vast
numbers of multi-cellular organism and the tiniest microbes.
But it was an inadvertent discovery in a stool analysis that led to Smarr's Crohn’s diagnosis and, eventually, to a new calling: as an evangelist for an impending medical revolution, “quantified health.”
November 6, 2014 - The University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Lecture series recently welcomed Calit2 luminary Larry Smarr to speak on a very interesting topic, bringing wellness into the digital age.
Deepak Chopra interviews Dr. Larry Smarr. We discussed everything from the origins of life, life in the universe, consciousness, mind brain genome, environment and the science of epigenetics. 04.23.2014.
The human body is host to 100 trillion microorganisms, ten times the number of cells in the human body and these microbes contain 100 times the number of DNA genes that our human DNA does.