You are your microbes - Jessica Green and Karen Guillemin

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Translator: Andrea McDonough Reviewer: Bedirhan CinarBeing human,we each view ourselves as a unique and independent individual,but we're never alone!Millions of microscopic beings inhabit our bodies,and no two bodies are the same.Each is a different habitat for microbial communities:from the arid deserts of our skin,to the villages on our lips,and the cities in our mouths.Even every tooth is its own distinctive neighborhood,and our guts are teaming metropolises of interacting microbes.And in these bustling streets of our guts,we see a constant influx of food,and every microbe has a job to do.Here's a cellulolytic bacteria, for example.Their one job is to break down cellulose,a common compound in vegetables, into sugars.Those simple sugars then move along t...