Discovery's Edge: Rise of the Microbiome

This article originally appeared on the Discovery's Edge blog. ______________________ As a species, we have a love-hate relationship with microbes. For centuries, we didn’t even know they existed. Then came the microscope and Louis Pasteur’s germ theory, and suddenly we could see that microorganisms were the cause of deathly diseases like bubonic plague, smallpox, and tuberculosis. The [...]
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