bacteria

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the soil commons

http://www.the-scientist.com/images/News/January2014/310_Ichip.jpg Many of the most widely used antibiotics have come out of the dirt. Penicillin came from Penicillium, a fungus found in soil, and vancomycin came from a bacterium found […]

Posted: June 22 2016
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a gut feeling

Last August we shared a New York Times piece on a new and growing body of research that suggests that the bacteria living in the human digestive track plays an […]

Posted: January 17 2016