Inside Your Microbiome

This special edition of the eLife Podcast marks our 50th episode
and we've decided to mark the milestone by focusing on a field
that's huge and tiny both at the same time: huge in terms of the
rate at which the discipline's growing and the impact it's set to
have our lives, and tiny because its subjects are microscopic. It's
our microbiome, the community of micro-organisms that live on us
and in us and outnumber our own human cells by maybe 50 fold: we're
literally passengers in our own bodies, and over the next 30
minutes we'll hear how gut bacteria might alter your risk of
diabetes, and how... Get the references and the transcripts for
this programme from the Naked Scientists website