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Ever wondered how your friends' gut microbiome influences your own health? No? Well, a team of ambitious researchers did and are on the hunt to find out how to connect social interactions and our health – via the gut microbiome of mice.
Over 7 years Dr Aura Raulo and her researchers have gathered data (and poo) from over 150 wood mice at any given time in Wytham Woods. This pioneering research could make us reevaluate how we perceive our health, especially our immune function. Rather than seeing our close-contacts as a source of potential infection, we might start seeing them as a supply of protection.
Video made by Angel Sharp Media http://www.angelsharp.com/
More from the Laboratory with Leaves video series: http://www.wythamwoods.ox.ac.uk/
Over 7 years Dr Aura Raulo and her researchers have gathered data (and poo) from over 150 wood mice at any given time in Wytham Woods. This pioneering research could make us reevaluate how we perceive our health, especially our immune function. Rather than seeing our close-contacts as a source of potential infection, we might start seeing them as a supply of protection.
Video made by Angel Sharp Media http://www.angelsharp.com/
More from the Laboratory with Leaves video series: http://www.wythamwoods.ox.ac.uk/
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