Microbiome on Wikipedia

The human body contains over 10 times more microbial cells than human cells, although the entire microbiome only weighs about 200 grams (7.1 oz), with some weight estimates ranging as high as 3 pounds (approximately 48 ounces or 1,400 grams). Some consider it to be a “newly discovered organ” since its existence was not generally recognized until the late 1990s and it is understood to potentially have overwhelming impact on human health – Wikipedia

Human microbiome overview articles for a general audience

• People love probiotics, but do they really help? – Christine Yu – Washington Post – May 2017
• Exciting Microbe Research? Temper That Giddy Feeling in Your Gut – Aaron E. Carroll – New York Times – March 2017
• A Gut Makeover for the New Year – Roni Caryn Rabin – New York Times – December 2016
• What’s lurking in your showerhead – Nicola twilley – The New Yorker – December 2016
• Are you ready to swallow a pill full of poop? – Katie M. Palmer – Wired – November 2016
• Are You Your Microbiome? Ed Yong Explains It All – Jennifer Ouellette – Gizmodo -August 2016
• How Miraculous Microbes Help Us Evolve Better, Faster, Stronger- Ed Yong – Smithsonian – July 2016
• The White House Launches the National Microbiome Initiative – Ed Yong – The Atlantic – May 2016
• 40 Trillion Bacteria on and in Us? Fewer Than We Thought – Nicholas Bakalar – New York Times – February 2016
• Scientists bust myth that our bodies have more bacteria than human cells: Decades-old assumption about microbiota revisited – Alison Abbott – Nature – January 2016
• Can you be too clean? – Katia Moskvitch – BBC – November 2015
• There is no healthy microbiome – Ed Yong – National Geographic – Nov 2014
• The Questions I Get Asked Most About The Microbiome: A Gastroenterologist Explains – Robynne Chutkan – Mind Body Green – July 2014
• Your Changing Microbiome – Learn Genetics – University of Utah – 2014
• Gut Reactions – by Claudia Wallis – Scientific American – May 2014
• Can we save our body’s ecosystem from extinction? – Rebecca Jacobson – PBS Newshour – April 2014
• Antibiotics Have Turned Our Bodies From Gardens Into Battlefields (interview with Marty Blaser) – Carl Zimmer – Wired – April 2014
• FAQ: The human microbiome – ASM Academy – January 2014
• Our bodies, our data – Emily Singer – Quanta Magazine interview with David Relman – October 2013
• Microbes: The Trillions of Creatures Governing Your Health – by Richard Conniff – in Smithsonian Magazine – May 2013
• Some of My Best Friends Are Germs – by Michael Pollan – in New York Times article – May 2013
• Germs Are Us – by Michael Specter – in The New Yorker – October 2012
• Tending the Body’s Microbial Garden – Carl Zimmer – The New York Times – June 2012
• Microbiome: Your Body Houses 10x More Bacteria Than Cells – in Discover Magazine – October 2010

Microbiome Audio Podcasts

• Staying Healthy May Mean Learning To Love Our Microbiomes – NPR – July 2013
• Gut Microbiota – BBC Radio 4 Frontiers – November 2013
• How the Human Microbiome Project Works – Stuff You Should Know podcast (40 min) – May 2014
• Finally, A Map Of All The Microbes On Your Body – Rob Stein NPR Shots / All Things Considered (5 min) – September 2013

Microbiome Videos

• Video: The Hidden World of Microbiomes – PhD Comics – May 2016
• We are not alone – Youreka Science video – January 2014
• You are your microbes – Jessica Green and Karen Guillemin – YouTube/TedEd – Jan 2013
• The Invisible Universe Of The Human Microbiome – NPR – November 2013
• Our Microbiome—Identifying the Worlds Within – Science Bulletins – American Museum of Natural History – May 2013

Non-human microbiome

• Scientists scramble to understand the invisible creatures around us before it’s too late – Lindsey Konkel – ENSIA – May 2017
• Farmers are manipulating microbiomes to help crops grow – Sarah Zhang – Wired – October 2016
• Soil Has a Microbiome, Too – Carrie Arnold – Smithsonian Magazine – August 2016
• Disentangling the plant microbiome. Breeding plants with more beneficial bacteria to feed the world won’t be simple – Science Daily – July 2016
• Learning through the grapevine: Researchers survey microbes that influence plant health – Loise Lerner – UChicago News – April 2015
• Why Tiny Microbes Mean Big Things for Farming – Peter Andrey Smith – National Geographic – September 2014
• The Next Green Revolution May Rely on Microbes – Cynthia Graber – KQED / PBS – June 2014
• Soil Microbiome of Central Park – Jef Akst – The Scientist – September 2014