Posts Tagged ‘microbiome’

NYTimes.com: Say Hello to the 100 Trillion Bacteria That Make Up Your Microbiome

Sunday, June 16th, 2013

Say Hello to the 100 Trillion Bacteria That Make Up Your Microbiome BY MICHAEL POLLAN
Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we?re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.

What is on your skin? Topographic diversity of fungal and bacterial communities in human skin

Saturday, May 25th, 2013

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12171.html QT:”
Microbial sequencing of samples obtained from multiple skin sites in healthy human adults shows that core-body and arm sites are dominated by fungal species of the genus Malassezia, whereas foot sites show high fungal diversity, and that skin topography is associated with differential compositions of bacterial and fungal communities. “

The Wired Atlas of the Human Ecosystem | Wired Magazine | Wired.com

Monday, May 20th, 2013

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/mf_microbiome/