Who and what would we be without the trillions of microorganisms living in us and on us?
This illustration shows the body sites that will be sampled from volunteers for the Human Microbiome Project. Courtesy NIH Medical Arts and Printing
According to a growing body of new research investigating the...
Jan
02
Diseases don’t actually exist in the way we think of them…. They’re actually downstream effects, or symptoms, from some upstream mechanism.
In this mind-expanding video, Mark Hyman, MD offers a scalable, teachable doable model of medicine, based on the latest systems biology.
The model he...
Nov
22
Few people give the human appendix much respect. It is seen as a curiously inactive and useless part of our anatomy, and we rarely give it much thought unless something is wrong with it—at which point it is promptly removed, and we go on with life as normal, bearing no indication that entire...
Sep
10
