![]() ![]() Only in the last few decades has that perspective shifted. ![]() They were pathogens, germs to be exterminated with soap and antibiotics. ![]() It’s become a mantra for the blossoming field of microbiome research-the study of how the bacteria, fungi, and viruses that live on our skin and inside our guts shape our development, our health, even our moods.įor centuries our view of microbes was rather one-sided. The idea that we are inseparable from our microscopic colonizers isn’t new. “Our lives are heavily influenced by external forces that are actually inside us,” writes Ed Yong, whose new book I Contain Multitudes celebrates our place in the universe of microbes that swarm in and around us, more numerous than stars in the Milky Way. ![]()
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