Human Microbiome Project

NYT comes out with a couple of gems related with the bacterial ecosystem inside us.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/health/human-microbiome-project-decodes-our-100-trillion-good-bacteria.html?pagewanted=all 

This kind of study was impossible/very expensive to do just a few years ago.   But now it produces wealth of information.     First on healthy people and healthy bacterias.   Some day for cancer patients and bacterias.   I wonder if there's difference.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/science/studies-of-human-microbiome-yield-new-insights.html?pagewanted=all

 

Imagine the researchers presenting their poop-transplant results with a straight face   And their beaming parents and their proud offsprings.   ROFL.

Let me jump aboard my hobby horse again.   Support research, support clinical trials and donate your *samples*.

A long thread on BCO about this and canine oncologist:

http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/73/topic/789218

Interesting TED talk about multilingual bacteria

http://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate.html

and another TED talk about an immortal cancer that is passed from one animal to another.

http://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate.html

 

Finally, clinical series live with some very interesting talks:

http://www.clinicalserieslive.com/login