Eric Franzosa, research fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, spoke on the public radio program Science Friday on May 15, 2015, about new findings that the microbial communities we carry in and on our bodies—known as the human microbiome—have the potential to uniquely identify individuals, much like a fingerprint.
The study appeared online May 11 in the journal PNAS.
A tiny, living identification badge: Your microbiome (Science Friday)
Personal microbiomes shown to contain unique ‘fingerprints’ (Harvard Chan School release)