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No need to candy-coat this research—the fun-loving people you hang out with for Christmas may improve your health.
Dr. Steven Templeton is the author of “Fear of a Microbial Planet: How a Germophobic Safety Culture Makes Us Less Safe.”
This microbial community plays several essential roles, from helping to create hormones to supplying the key components of our immune system.
The viruses, fungi, and bacteria that live inside and upon us are essential to critical functions in our bodies.
Adding nitrogen and phosphorous to the soil beneath grasslands shifts the natural communities of fungi, bacteria, and microscopic organisms called archaea that live in the soil.
Since 2004, researchers have been studying the Frasassi cave system, an actively developing limestone cave system located 1,500 feet underground in central Italy.
