Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Microbiome of your skin


Microbiome of your skin
While you may not recognize this microscopic creature, it’s closer to you than you think. Most people have these harmless Demodex mites, pictured here, living in the skin around their eyelashes! 
Your skin is your body’s largest organ and many species of bacteria, fungi and other microbes call it home.

Learn more about the microbiome of your skin:
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/the-secret-world-inside-you/the-microbiome-of-your-skin

#science   #mite   #microbe

12 comments:

  1. Didn't I see that on Battlebots?

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  2. apologies to Swift: big mites have little mites/upon their backs to bite 'em/and little mites have smaller mites/and so ad infinitum

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  3. I have none  such awful things like these in my eyelashes because I use fake eyelashes take them away and clean them with alcohol every day.

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  4. Balbir Singh And thanks God is invisible and small.

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  5. Eric Rivera Not so well as Shakespeare but is improving. :-)

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