Too many antibiotics? Bacterial ecology that lives on humans has changed in last 100 years
Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 14:00
in Biology & Nature
A new study has demonstrated that ancient DNA can be used to understand ancient human microbiomes. The microbiomes from ancient people have broad reaching implications for understanding recent changes to human health, such as what good bacteria might have been lost as a result of our current abundant use of antibiotics and aseptic practices.