Three petri dishes containing colorful bacterial cultures on a white background. The dishes display intricate microbial patterns: one with teal and yellow flowers, another with yellow and white formations, and the third with blue and yellow structures.

Why is all this microbiome stuff happening now?

Advances in science now allow us to “see” DNA and we can now study ecosystems that were previously too small to study. The Polymerase Chain Reaction, discovered by Kerry Mullis in 1983 allows us to identify microbes by deciphering their DNA. Over the last few years, the cost of sequencing DNA has fallen enough to make this type of research possible.

Esse’s CEO and founder Trevor Steyn explains this in the video below.