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Podcast: The Thorne Podcast
Episode: Life Finds a Way: The Genetic Map of Microbes
Description: Dr. Chris Mason, professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, zeroes in on microbial movement within the planetary microbiome, outer space, and even in our own gut systems. Learn more about your “gut print” as well as the scientific possibility of reviving extinct species and lost ecosystems.
During this episode you’ll learn about:
Chris Mason, professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine and co-founder of Onegevity [00:00:53]
Origins of a planetary genetic map [4:51]
Metagenomics as a genetic puzzle [6:55]
What is the Metropolome? [7:34]
The microbial signatures of cities [9:36]
How microbes interact with humans [10:45]
Using wastewater to study...