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Probiotic Naming Shenanigans

Dear Friends, Nomenclature, when it comes to bacteria, can be very confusing; partly because of the evolving technology for classifying organisms, which necessitates giving them new names correspon...

Children as Canaries in Mines

Dear Friends, Remember a couple of emails ago we sited frogs as being the canary in the mine? The common herbacide, atrazine, causes hermaphroditism 100% of the time when exposedto even very small ...

Hoodlums in the Gut

Dear Friends, It has been said that we are as good as the company that we keep, and indeed from a Lilliputian point of view, our body keeps company with many different cells, and it is the balance ...

Meet the Human Microbiome Project

Dear Friends, The scientific method develops a hypothesis and then backs it up with objective, repeatable evidence. We will be looking at some of the hypotheses posited by the Human Microbiome Proj...