WHAT ARE PROBIOTICS ? Probiotics are nowadays defined as live bacteria that may confer a health benefit on the host. Since the term was first introduced in 1953 and defined […]
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In an interview for Science podcast, Prof. Jeffrey Gordon, principal investigator at the Center for Genome Science and Systems Biology at the Washington University School of Medicine, talked about the […]
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The human body contains more microbes than its own human cells The human body is colonized by 10 times more microorganisms than the number of its own cells: the microbiota. […]
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Microbiota means « little living » and is the recent name given to the entire microbial community living in symbiosis with our body. It comprises mainly what was further called the gut […]
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