A round petri dish shows an image split in half. The left half contains a green medium with yellow and brown bacterial colonies, while the right half displays a smiling person with curly hair, wearing a white turtleneck and hoop earrings.

Microbes & your skin

THERE’S AN EXTRAORDINARY THING GOING DOWN ON YOUR SKIN! TRILLIONS of microbes, from thousands of species, call your skin home.  Normally, they get along just fine and they provide the…

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The Future Of Skincare

In 2003 the Human Genome Project declared that the sequencing of the human genome was complete after 13 years of intense research. It cost $2,7 billion. Now you can have…

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Extinction

SAVE THE RHINO – BECAUSE IT’S BIG! Any student of the natural sciences understands this conundrum: all species on the planet contain potentially valuable genetic information but large species are…