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The FDA has halted trials of fecal transplants after one recipient has died and another is ill. Both were being treated for an intestinal infection called…
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Microbiologist Jack Gilbert says, as parents, we’ve been making a mistake in over-sterilizing our environment. For one thing, we shouldn’t keep our…
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There are at least as many bacterial cells in your body as their human cells. And there’s a growing recognition that they’re critical for everything from…
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It’s known as the deep biosphere, or the dark energy biosphere. What is it? Microbes - bacteria, archaea, even fungi - living not at the bottom of the…
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We like to think we’re in charge of our health, but it increasingly looks like the ones really running the show are the microbes in, on, and around us -…