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Radio 4,1 min

The invisible hand altering our behaviour

The Second Genome

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John Cryan of the APB Microbiome Centre in Cork demonstrates one of the many animal experiments that demonstrate the effect that microbes have on complex behaviours of sociability that are highly relevant to conditions such as autism and schizophrenia in humans.

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