We Are Never Alone, Thanks to Microbes

There are trillions of microbes inside us, on us, and in our environment. And it turns out that humans and these microbes have been co-evolving for billions of years. Thanks to a combination of new technology and The National Institutes of Health’s Human Microbiome Project, we know now more than ever about microbes, how they interact with us, and how we might be able to harness them to improve our health!
In our latest Please Explain, Rob DeSalle, curator of entomology in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History and co-author of Welcome to the Microbiome: Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You, answers your questions about microbes and what they mean to us. Rob DeSalle is also co-curator of the exhibit The Secret World Inside You, currently on view at the American Museum of Natural History through August 14. 
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