and throughout our lives the microbiome const. interacts with the environment we pass our microbes along to objects people and animals and received terrorism returned to healthy microbiome researchers believe is stable because it s diverse. cloudier title hoffman is now trying to determine who can handle exact microbial makeup. that s no easy task because there is no way to distinguish between species under a microscope. each bacteria virus or fungus has to be identified genetically through d.n.a. testing. and. it s a laborious process. we all know the gene data looks confusing if you don t know how to read it. you know but ruben hurdles results are clear cut.