Posts Tagged ‘acne bacteria’

February 14th, 2024 by Dr. Hannah Sivak

What’s in your skin microbiome? An enormous variety of living organisms, sustained by your skin and helping (or not) to keep it healthy. If before we were constrained by the ability to grow the microorganisms in culture, now it’s possible to identify them using DNA, and this allowed us to uncover microbes that are hard to culture in a Petri dish. What do these microorganisms do for you? They are there to serve themselves, kept warm and in nice humidity, and they are fed. This is a relationship, commensalism, in which microorganisms evolved with humans. We inherit microorganisms from our mothers when we are born; they will colonize our skin…