A team of researchers has recently managed to venture boldly into areas where no one has ever gone before and decode all the bacterial genes which are found residing in the human gut.

The new discovery is expected to have far-reaching implications for the human health and well-being, as a detailed knowledge of what lives inside human beings can lead to some groundbreaking discoveries.

Experts are expecting that the findings might find their use in prediction of chronic intentional illnesses, right from ulcers to cancer.

Under the study, researchers managed to decode the DNA sequence of the various thousand genes that are used by the huge number of bacteria that take up a permanent residence inside the human intestines. It has been discovered that nearly 1,000 different species of microbe can live in the healthy human gut.

Also, it has been found that every person on an average has some 160 different species residing inside them at any given point of time.

The breakthrough research was carried out by Chinese scientist Wang Jun and has been published in the latest issue of Nature.