Microbiome of breast links to breast cancer

This is yet another story of the profound and complex ways our microbiomes affect our health. Scientists Delphine Lee, Alfred Chan and others from the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, Ca have been studying the role of the microbiome in breast cancer, by...

Time to abandon the hygiene hypothesis

An important paper from several prominent members of the microbiome and health research community, including Fergus Shanahan and Graham Rook. They are not arguing that we should disregard the rapidly-accumulating mass of research which links our gut microbiome with...

Life History Session

The prodigious Emerald Snow has just sent in this commentary on the life history session. Thanks, Emerald! Caleb Finch opened this session by showing us an interesting case of antagonistic pleiotropy: the ApoE4 allele in humans. ApoE4 causes inflammation, brain aging,...