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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

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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