Most people know that everything from cancer types to nose shapes 'run in the family,' but what if it's not just our own genetic code? Ryan Mork studies how staph could run in families - i.e. we might be able to inherit traits of the skin microbiome. It's not just the gut that has it's own ecosystem, in this episode we talk about how our skin is the playground of many microorganisms that can either keep us healthy or make it easier for us to get sick.
Suggested Reading:
Broad overview of the human microbiome: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg3182
As referenced in the podcast:(publicly-available data may give us more information than previously expected) http://science.sciencemag.org/content/339/6117/321
Description of major study by NIH to examine the human microbiome across 5 body sites in hundreds of people: https://hmpdacc.org/hmp/
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Follow Ryan Mork: https://biophysics.uchicago.edu/the-students/ryan_mork/
Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro
Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing
