The trillions of microbes that live on and inside the human body are an important part of who we are, from mediating all our interactions with the environment to determining our cancer risk and influencing who we fall into. And scientists are only now beginning to decipher the kinds of bugs we share our lives with, and how they shape us.
In the first of a Science Weekly three-part mini-series, Ian Sample talks to colorectal surgeon and researcher James Kinross about the wondrous world of our gut microbiome, how modern life affects it, and what we can do to look. It
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