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What is the gut microbiome?
... whilst also hoping to find out a little bit more about her own own inhabitants… Julia - So I've been sent a health kit box, to better understand my own body pretty much. And here, there is the blood test that ...
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 ...
Bacteria seeking Asylum...
... And why do we fight back so violently to protect our own interests? Of course, being more scientific than ... army will not give us a chance and eagerly sacrifices its own cells to destroy us. The 'Acquired' branch of your Immune ... will wage a war that is as vicious and as ruthless as your own... It's funny how the microscopic world of bacteria and ...
eLife Episode 50: Inside Your Microbiome
... that live on us and in us and outnumber our own human cells by maybe 50 fold: we’re literally passengers in our own bodies, and over the next 30 minutes we’ll hear how ...
Vitamin B12 bacterial thieves
... and this can sometimes bring us into conflict with our own microbes. Aaron Wexler explains to Chris Smith how this ... protein is so good at doing it's job it's better than our own one, and so if you put the two head to head in a ...
Gut feeling: bacteria and diabetes
... diabetes. This form of diabetes is caused by the body’s own immune system attacking insulin-secreting cells in the ... the bacteria living inside us will help us understand our own health and disease. Intestinal bacteria can trigger the ...
Your personal microbial aura
... They found that each of the eight occupants emitted their own unique concentration of airborne particles. Microbial ... time that individuals occupying a space can emit their own distinct personal microbial cloud" It is becoming ... unique, it is plausible that we would each have our own personalized microbial 'fingerprint'. As well as unique ...
Where does the bacteria in our gut come from?
... you to learn that we're actually passengers in our own body. If you count the number of bacteria that live on us ...
Seasonal changes in the human microbiome
... in western Tanzania. The Hadza are do not have farm their own crops or livestock but instead are hunter gatherers. ...
Microbiome on a chip
... strains of microbes that live in contact with our own cells are tricky to recreate. Chris Smith spoke to ...
Mice given penicillin in pregnancy behave badly
... pups once they are born and become colonised with their own bacteria, which are carried to the brain. These factors, ...
NICE recommends faecal microbiota transplant
... potentially they might be different syndromes on their own. FMT appears to be effective in some of these trials, but ...
What is the microbiome and where does it come from?
... the factors we're exposed to, we're not just impacting our own health, but we're potentially affecting the future health ...