A human microbiome project?
You probably don’t like to think about it, but the human body hosts an unbelievable number of bacteria and other single-celled organisms, from the gut to the lungs to the skin, and plenty of places in between. In fact, some estimates hold that our microbial population outnumbers our body’s own cells by a factor of ten to one.
Whether or not that gives you the yucks, scientists are gearing up to begin exploring what they call… Continue Reading