Leslie Bienen and Margery Smelkinson , Don’t Let the Pandemic Make You Hate Microbes. Inside or outside of your body, you need them / Non lasciate che la pandemia vi faccia odiare i microbi. Dentro o fuori del vostro corpo, ne avete bisogno. "About 10 years ago, it seemed like everywhere you looked, someone was talking about the importance of the human microbiome. In 2003, the Human Genome Project finished mapping and sequencing all human DNA, and the National Institutes of Health turned attention to studying the nonhuman genes that inhabit us, those of the trillions—trillions!—of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microorganisms that live on and inside our bodies. Between 2007 and 2016, the NIH awarded $170 million to the Human Microbiome Project to investigate our relationship with our microbiota. This project and other research showed that our reliance on microbiota cannot be overstated. Several early seminal studies showed that the microbiome is integral...