Interview with Simonetta Gribaldo
May 29, 2020
Simonetta Gribaldo works at the Pasteur Institute and is one of the world experts in archaea, which are fascinating yet still mostly unknown microorganisms.
Etiqueta: microbiology
A civilisation without oxygen
Aug 13, 2018
Is the presence of oxygen really indispensable for the emergence of complex multicellular life?
Our microbe self
Feb 22, 2016
Apart from a keystone ingredient to a healthy gut, microbiota also seem to communicate with our brains.
Interview with Ricardo Amils
Jun 10, 2013
When you hear an expression with such poetic connotations like «the limits of life», it is likely that the last thing that comes to our minds are the microorganisms that live in the depths of Lake Vostok (Antarctica) or in the acidic waters of Rio
Me, Myself…and my Microbiota
Feb 15, 2013
«I am myself plus my circumstance, and if I do not save it, I cannot save myself», wrote Ortega y Gasset in Meditations on Quixote. Our most immediate biological «circumstance» is our microbiota, namely, the host of microbes living in and on our bodies. They