The Naked Scientists Podcast
The Naked Scientists Podcast
The Naked Scientists
Faeces and phages: Moulding the microbiome
31 minutes Posted Nov 7, 2023 at 5:12 am.
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Today, we're helping you to get to know your microbiome, and hearing why a better understanding of it viewed by some as the next frontier in helping us to live longer, healthier lives. First, we explore the co-evolution of man and microbe, and the suite of modern techniques helping to clear up the remaining mysteries of the intestines. And, later on, how medicine is mobilsing the microbiome to ward of antibiotic resistant bacteria using faecal transplants and 'good' viruses... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists