Our Microbes and Our Health
Discovery
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The Different Types of Gut Microbiomes
i know you have lots of these different models now and they've all got different microbiomes so you can do experiments on them what do they look like and what can these tell us about their human health i don't know what to picture in your lab you should come and see come and smell if you can stand scratching sniff yeah. There are machines made out of glass pots or fermenters held together by tubes and they are stirred and gases pump into them the gut is anaerobic there's no oxygen in in the gut so we need to pump nitrogen throughThrough the things we put probes in to keep the pH at a certain levelWe pump acid or alkali into cyst that and the models
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