Adam’s Journal A friend’s toddler recently had some long-lasting gastrointestinal trouble. His pediatrician ordered a stool sample to rule out foodborne illness. Although he didn’t have a bacterial infection, the results showed that some of the beneficial bacteria in his gut were either missing or significantly reduced. How does this happen? And how do you […]
microorganisms
Think Halloween is creepy?
Your own body is a factory of weird.
Coming Clean
With OMRF’s new germ-free facility, researchers can study the role of microbes in human health We are outnumbered. For every human cell in our bodies, 10 others belonging to microorganisms reside in our mouths, on our skin and in our digestive tracts. To study the role these hordes of tiny hitchhikers—which we commonly think of […]
