Science Bar: “Microbes: Friends or Foes?”

Thursday, June 15, 2017, from 8:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Brasserie le Dôme – Montpellier

Microbes are the primary colonizers of our planet. One kilogram of our body consists of one hundred trillion microbial cells, and without these living organisms—invisible to the naked eye—we could not survive.
Microbes thrive in the air, soil, and water, and are present in all living things because their ability to adapt is limitless. Unfairly associated with unsanitary conditions, disease, and even death, microbes awaken in us an ancestral fear: that of major epidemics. Yet they are most often our allies, as their benefits are countless, while others can indeed be fatal to us.

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