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Joan Rothchild Hardin

Jul 910 min read

FASCINATING BIOFILMS: The Source of Life on Earth - and Misery When They Take Up Residence in Our Sinuses

You may think you know nothing about biofilms but there's one kind of biofilm we all have experience with: the soft, sticky, white biofilm...

Joan Rothchild Hardin

Jun 30, 20176 min read

In Response to “Do Probiotics Really Work?” (Scientific American, July 2017)

An article titled “Do Probiotics Really Work? in the current (July 2017) issue of Scientific American really irked me so I decided to...

Joan Rothchild Hardin

Jan 9, 201722 min read

Psychobiotics for Anxiety and Depression

It may strain the imagination to hear that several pounds of organisms live inside your gastrointestinal tract and that they are in...

Joan Rothchild Hardin

Jun 26, 20163 min read

How Bacteria Talk To Each Other

Did you know bacteria ‘talk’ with one another? Although bacteria are primitive single-celled organisms, their ability to use chemical...

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