The Microbiota in Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology: Implications for Human Health, Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Dysbiosis The modern history of the microbiota of the intestinal/gut microbiome is fascinating. The scientific world did not intensively develop its interest in this world of organisms until the national committee stimulated by Dr. Jeffrey Gordon published the paper Turnbaugh et€al. that clearly showed the microbiota of the gastrointestinal tract were numerous...