Ed Yong in The New York Times
There Is No ?Healthy? Microbiome.
LONDON ? In the late 17th century, the Dutch naturalist Anton van Leeuwenhoek looked at his own dental plaque through a microscope and saw a world of tiny cells ?very prettily a-moving.?
He could not have predicted that a few centuries later, the trillions of microbes that share our lives ? collectively known as the microbiome ? would rank among the hottest areas of biology...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/opinion/sunday/there-is-no-healthy-microbiome.html?_r=1
LONDON ? In the late 17th century, the Dutch naturalist Anton van Leeuwenhoek looked at his own dental plaque through a microscope and saw a world of tiny cells ?very prettily a-moving.?
He could not have predicted that a few centuries later, the trillions of microbes that share our lives ? collectively known as the microbiome ? would rank among the hottest areas of biology...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/opinion/sunday/there-is-no-healthy-microbiome.html?_r=1