How our microbes make us who we are

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

TODAY’S TED TALK Rob Knight: How our microbes make us who we are 17:24 minutes · TED2014 Rob Knight is a pioneer in studying human microbes, the community of tiny single-cell organisms living inside our bodies that have a huge — and largely unexplored — role in our health. “The three pounds of microbes that you carry around with you might be more important than every single gene you carry around in your genome,” he says. Find out why. Watch now » PLAYLIST OF THE DAY The future of medicine Once you've seen a transplantable human kidney created from a 3D printer, almost anything is imaginable ... Watch » 11 TED Talks · Total run time 2:23:23