Thursday, August 8, 2013

Postgenomic spoof ads


Your microbiome is better than mine. Can I buy it?
While bioprospecting was once external to our bodies, with postgenomics and the mapping of human microbiomes, bioprospecting is turning simultaneously into bodies and their interactions with the environment as a source of capitalization. Microbiomes of people living in more rural settings may have microbiomes that counter diseases associated with affluence and development. Obesity, for example, may be related to the kinds of bacteria in our microbiome.See the movie review for Antiviral.