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Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too?

Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too?

New research hints that certain microbes can make it past the blood-brain barrier and inhabit a healthy vertebrate brain.

The Quanta Podcast

April 24, 202515m 59s

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Show Notes

The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.

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