Microbiome: Latest News

03/27/15

Spotlight Live: Learning from Earth’s Smallest Ecosystems

Two leaders in the field discussed what makes natural biomes so difficult to measure, and how nanoscience may help us unlock their secrets.

02/12/15

Thinking Smaller: How Nanoscience Can Help Us Understand Nature's Many Microbiomes

More than 50 million different species of single-celled microbes live on Earth, yet we know very little about the communities they inhabit. Two experts in the field, Eoin Brodie and Jack Gilbert, discuss how nanoscience may enable us to better understand their dynamics.

01/26/15

Spotlight Live: Microbes and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

On January 28, astrobiologists Jocelyne DiRuggiero and Christopher McKay discussed how microbiomes - the communities of microbes that inhabit different ecosystems - is driving the search for life elsewhere in the universe.

01/25/15

Microbiome & Astrobiology: How to Search for Life on Other Worlds

Armed with new knowledge about how microbes persist even in the Earth’s harshest environments, astrobiologists are planning the next missions to search for life in our solar system. Their bets are on microbes.

01/08/15

Microbiome and Neuroscience: The Mind-Bending Power of Bacteria

Our bodies are home to a vast ecosystem of microbes – the microbiome – that has a powerful effect on the brain. Three researchers, Tracy Bale, Christopher Lowry and Sarkis Mazmanian, discuss the emerging gut-microbiome-brain connection and whether microbes may help us treat brain disorders.

01/08/15

Spotlight Live: The Microbiome & the Brain - A New State of Mind

On January 15, neuroscientist Christopher Lowry discussed the emerging science, that's connecting the microbiome – the community of microbes that inhabit the body – with brain health including whether we can treat common brain disorders through the gut.

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