How does all this invisible living world work?

Audio 48:30

Welcome to Microbia!

© Fabrice Hyber & Pascale Cossart / ed.

Odile jacob

By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

What are the differences between bacteria, viruses and protozoa?

Are microorganisms good for the body?

What is the microbiota?

A colorful dive into the invisible world of living things!

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Let's set off to discover an incredible world, invisible to the naked eye and omnipresent on earth, in the ground as on the sea and in the air, on our skin and even in our intestines: it is the invisible world of living things. to use the title of the book by our guest, Professor 

  internationally recognized for her research and discoveries in microbiology, who has joined forces with the artist

to offer us a sacred microbial journey.

Viruses are essential, useful and even beneficial to us, so only a tiny minority of those called microbes deserve their bad reputation?

With :

Pascale Cossart

, biologist, professor at the Institut Pasteur, perpetual secretary of the Academy of Sciences and 

, artist interested in the relationship between the arts and sciences, and all forms of life, in particular trees.

They publish, with Odile Jacob editions, the work

 : a journey in the world of the infinitely small and 73 questions illustrated by evocative and colorful watercolors and drawings!

(Replay of the show of May 12, 2021)

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