Three petri dishes with colorful bacterial cultures. The top right dish has a yellow flower-like pattern in blue medium, the top left dish has white and teal clusters, and the bottom right dish has intricate beige and white formations in a yellow medium.

Why is all this microbiome stuff happening now?

Advances in science now allow us to “see” DNA and we can now study ecosystems that were previously too small to study. The Polymerase Chain Reaction, discovered by Kerry Mullis…