MGY277H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Clostridium, Colectomy, Randomized Controlled Trial

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Week 1, video 5 seeing the invisible. Humans are the bystanders; microbes are what do the work. Vibrio means vibrate vibrio harveyi is a marine bacterium and is very fast. If you watch them cell divide, all the bacteria in unison start glowing in the dark. By studying this bioluminescent organism we discovered that bacteria can communicate (so not only higher order organisms like us communicate but smaller ones do too and probably started before we came along). Week 1, video 6 npr video on microbiome. There are 10x more microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi) than human cells in our body. Bacteria genes to human genes is a ratio of 10:1. The human microbiome is the set of all the microorganism genes on the human body. Our microbiomes come from our mothers as infant passes through birth canal, microbes get passed from our mom to us our microbes is like a fingerprint (unique to us but resembles that of our parents)

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