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Food and mood
... bees, and other more primitive organisms that have their own gut microbiome. Kat - We sort of hear a lot about the ... that they have developed capabilities of hacking into our own communication systems that are very elaborate that link ... those human programmes and modify them according to their own needs. Kat - So, our gut bacteria could basically be ...
What is the microbiome?
... of ourselves as individuals that we live under our own steam, we behave under our own wills, we grow up from a single egg into this complicated organism under instructions from our own genomes. All of those things are complicated by the ...
Fungus farming leaf-cutter ants
... ants; and they're very special: they farm their own food in underground gardens, and that is almost ... the ants do, they manure the fungus gardens with their own faeces - it is actually very clever if he can first ... inoculation, which will then basically mean she in her own body can manage that symbiont as far as is required to be ...
Bee microbiome fights parasites with cyanide
... microbes; in fact some say that we’re passengers in our own bodies, outnumbered in cellular terms by our own microbiomes. We know that these microorganisms are ...
The great fly gender divide
... which is that each cell individually specifies it's own sex. So we could harness this particular feature to ...
Microbes on a diet
... fatty acids? We can't make that in the body through our own metabolism, we're absolutely dependent on our diet as a ...
Microbiome plant toxin and drug digestion
... should regard the microbiome as an additional organ in its own right, because of the huge number of molecular "knives ...