My Own Research

Question 1

In general, far more is known about the microbes of the gastrointestinal tract than those inhabiting the other body sites.

Answer 1

Let’s get on this! Could we use helminths? Steal quorum sensing? How can we avoid coimmunity?

antibiotics rarely decrease the total number of protective microbes present; instead, they shift the composition of the different species

Question 2

Dysbiosis on sleep disorders

Answer 2

What’s going on here?

Question 3

Mucins form gels that coat epithelial linings in our body, acting both as a barrier and as a lubricant.

Answer 3

enhancing the BBB in critical windows of immune vulnerability

Question 4

biofilms. Biofilms are very difficult for us to attack immunologically or through the use of antibiotics.

Answer 4

disruption? - some of our gut bacteria have the capacity to block biofilm formation by gut pathogens through antibiofilm enzyme (acylase)

Question 5

Researchers have found that CRISPR can be present even in the absence of viruses. The question is, what is it doing in those situations?

Answer 5

One idea is that it allows bacteria to respond to environmental changes by changing their own cell envelope physiology

Question 6

coimmunity

Answer 6

immune attacks upon the ‘commensal’ microbes that normally live in a mutually beneficial relationship with our bodies

Question 7

a doctor cannot usually tell which patients are sick because of a virus, and which because of a bacterium

Answer 7

WHAT??

Question 8

Naked mole rat can’t get cancer

Answer 8

WHATTT???

Question 9

Is there a way we can stop water from getting into viruses?

Answer 9

To ruin their metabolism?