Life events such as visiting another country or contracting a disease cause a significant shift in the make-up of the gut microbiota Smartphone experiment tracks whether our life story is written in our gut bacteria

Newly discovered gut virus lives in half the world's population http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140724094214.htm unbekanntes DarmVirus entdeckt, das in jedem zweiten Menschen wohnt http://www.welt.de/gesundheit/article130589253/Forscher-entdecken-bisher-unbekanntes-Darm-Virus.html

Bacteria on your hands reflect the country you live in

We Are Our Bacteria: a rise in diseases & other ailments is linked to the changing composition of microbes in the gut

Monitoring the rise and fall of the gut microbiome. Why microbiome populations tend to return to an average value?

Probiotics and Prebiotics: the latter are nondigestible carbohydrates that stimulate the growth & activity of beneficial micro-organisms in the gut

Titanium dioxide nanoparticles in sunscreens! Do they harm by seeping through the skin and into the bloodstream? http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/ask-well-nanoparticles-in-sunscreens/