Microbiology (GUT BIOME) with Elaine Hsiao
Ologies with Alie Ward
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What Makes a Good Bacteria?
Etymology of the word bug is ancient welsh for ghost or goblin, which in this case kind of make sense. So elaine is essentially a ghost hunter who's just out looking for caspers. And so what makes a good bacteria versus a bad bacteria? Yes, that's a good question. I mean, a very superficial level, normal is that they don't actually cause disease. But now people are finding that the bugs that are in and on us, that some of em play really important roles. Like, there's some bugs that help us digest things that we wouldn't otherwise be able to digest. We rely on bugs to help us do it. Ye. The actual number
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