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"There Is No 'Healthy' Microbiome" -- Ed Yong, NYTimes.
The microbiome is where ecology meets medicine:
We need to start thinking about it as an ecosystem, like a rain forest or grassland, with all the complexities that entails. And just as the gorillas and leopards of African forests differ from the wolves and moose of American ones, so, too, do microbiomes vary around the world.
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The preview to the movie "Microbirth" is full of folks making pretty grandiose claims about the potential of the microbiome and impending global health doom if we ignore it. Not that I'm entirely disagreeing, but there's definitely a touch of Hollywood in it. I'll have to add it to my movie queue.
A beautiful video on the origin story of microbiology from the NYTimes.
Cell phones reflect our personal microbiome
New paper out in PeerJ today shows that our cell phones are a unique reflection of ourselves.
Article on phys.org about the study.
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Looks like a good read on wound microbes and health implications.
Cool NYTimes article on using ammonia oxidizing bacteria to fight BO -- "My No-Soap, No-Shampoo, Bacteria-Rich Hygiene Experiment".
Title: Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues Author: Martin J. Blaser Synopsis: A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field’s leading expert Tracing one scientist’s journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take readers to the forefront of trail-blazing research while revealing the damage that overuse of antibiotics is doing to our health: contributing to the rise of obesity, asthma, diabetes, and certain forms of cancer. In Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for the health and equilibrium of our body. Now, this invisible eden is being irrevocably damaged by some of our most revered medical advances—antibiotics—threatening the extinction of our irreplaceable microbes with terrible health consequences. Taking us into both the lab and deep into the fields where these troubling effects can be witnessed firsthand, Blaser not only provides cutting edge evidence for the adverse effects of antibiotics, he tells us what we can do to avoid even more catastrophic health problems in the future. Format: hardcover, 288 pages Available: April 8, 2014
Cool animation following the breakdown of starch through the gut
Incredible work by Betty Busby
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In a fascinating post by Virginia Hughes, "The Humble Heroes of Weight-Loss Surgery: Stomach Acids and Gut Microbes", she writes about a recent study working to tease apart the factors that make weight-loss surgery effective. The authors essentially find that it's not the physical alteration that matters, but rather an increase in bile acids and changes to the gut bacterial community that provide the beneficial effect.
There's some great info in the post on how and why surgeries are effective, specifically compared to medical therapy, and some good perspective on how we view the causes of obesity. Well worth a read.
Quizzes are always fun, so here's a couple on your microbiome and personal genetics (no expertise needed!) -- brought to you by the Personal Genetics Education Project at pgEd.org.
One of my favorite science writers, Ed Yong, talks about parasites that influence the behavior of their hosts in his recent TED talk...very cool stuff.
Rob Knight, a leader in microbiome research at Colorado University, talks with MicrobeWorld about what big surprises came out of the Human Microbiome Project, what questions researchers are asking, and what he's currently working on.
Graphic in the BioMed Central blog post on our recent paper in Microbiome.
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Today we released a paper from our research group at the BioBE Center in Microbiome. The study shows how surfaces in the built environment reflect the ways in which humans come into contact with them. That is, the bacteria on desks are similar to our skin because we often touch them, and chairs are similar to...well, watch the video to find out.
Just for kicks, we made this little whiteboard animation to explain our study. Enjoy!
The META Center recently tweeted an interview with Stanford University's David Relman -- a leader in microbiome research -- in 2011. Relman discusses the importance of the oral and gut microbiome, impact of antibiotics, and the potential of probiotics.
