Page 71 - Forbes - Africa (March 2020)

Fecal Forest
Finch Therapeutics cofounder
Mark Smith at Finch’s Somerville,
Massachusetts, offices. “It’s only
in the past 15 years that we’ve
come to understand the incredible
diversity of the microbiome. It’s
almost like a rainforest inside our
bodies. There are 100 times more
bacterial genes than human genes.”