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Knowing which microbes live in various
ecological niches in healthy people allows us to better investigate what goes awry in diseases thought to have a microbial link, like Crohn's disease and obesity,» says George Weinstock, associate director of the Genome Institute at Washington University in St Louis and one of the Human Microbiome
Project's principal investigators.
Well -
known for her «living sculptures» which she calls «biosculptures,» the work of
ecological artist Jackie Brookner is a collaborative and cross-disciplinary effort to create water remediation art
projects that are public in nature - reclaiming wetlands, rivers, streams and stormwater runoff into revitalized environments - and bringing to awareness the gift of life that water brings.