The past few years has garnered a lot of public attention on the roughly three pounds of tiny inhabitants that occupy the human gut. And rightly so, our microbiota (which outnumbers our human cells by a factor of 10) are proving to be a vital key to understanding the human not as a sterile organism … Continue reading
I wrote an article about phage for The Scientist magazine this month. Check it out. Continue reading
Right now on Reddit, scientist–and my friend–Jeremy Barr is answering anything you want to ask on phage, particularly related to this ground-breaking paper on phage and our innate immunity. Go on: ask him anything. . . . . (for further reading go here, here, here, and here) (phage art by Mark Hatay) Continue reading
