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The microbiome: Our life in common with microorganisms

Impact: Cell Biology    January 28, 2011
Fifth in a series of posts inspired by ten topics in ‘Insights of the Decade’ from the December 17, 2010 special issue of Science Magazine The topics are: Inflammation, climatology, tricks of light, alien planets, the microbiome, cell development, Martian water, the DNA time machine, cosmology and epigenetics. The original articles are now behind a [...]
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“Gentlemen, engineer your astronauts.”

Spun: November 16, 2010
“I say let’s build better astronauts.” Craggy Windman was serious. He was standing on the dais in a slept-in Armani suit, tie undone, disheveled salt-and-pepper beard and talking to an assembly of rocket scientists. (Yes, you had to be a rocket scientist with a NASA badge to get into the room.) He stabbed his pointer [...]
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New study: Metagenomics gets a gut feel

Impact: DNA Decoding    March 9, 2010
I couldn’t resist the pun in the title of this post: Metagenomics gets a gut feel. The newly released study behind it, which is having considerable play in the media and on the internet, is the first genetic catalog of the microbes (bacteria, fungi, others) that make up the microbiome (ecosystem) of the human gut. [...]
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