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Why it’s the aliens living inside you that create your sense of you

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Why it’s the aliens living inside you that create your sense of you

Foreign cells within our bodies help determine our mental states and even contribute to our immune defences – making it tricky to define where you end and the others begin

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Gardnerella vaginalis bacteria

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Vaginal bacteria may eat HIV prevention drugs and leave women at risk

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Babies are being fed mother’s poo in effort to boost gut bacteria

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Science with Sam describes the microbiome

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The microbiome: How bacteria regulate your health. Science with Sam

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Science with Sam describes the microbiome

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The microbiome: How gut bacteria regulate our health

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Tumour cells

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Cancer tumour microbiome may predict a person's chances of survival

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Boosting gut microbes helps protect mice against Alzheimer’s disease

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Boosting gut microbes helps protect mice against Alzheimer’s disease

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Megan Rossi, the Gut Health Doctor

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Alzheimer's beta-amyloid fibrils

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Alzheimer’s disease may start in the gut and spread to the brain

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A sugary diet changes gut bacteria and worsens brain function in rats

Rats fed a sugar syrup early in life develop an unusual gut microbiome that seems to worsen the rodents’ memories by changing the way their brains work

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Parkinson’s disease may spread from brain to gut and vice versa

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First map of tumour microbiomes finds bacteria live in many cancers

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Microorganisms: the future of food, fuel and medicine

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Breastfed babies have fewer viruses in their guts that affect humans

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