Bacterial microbiome mapping, bioartistic experiment

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<p>"At the turn of the twentieth century, smallpox claimed the lives of two million people per year. By 1979, the disease had been eradicated and victory was declared across the globe. Yet the story of smallpox remains the exception, as today a host of deadly contagions, from polio to AIDS, continue to threaten human health around the world. Spanning three centuries, The End of Plagues weaves together the discovery of vaccination, the birth and growth of immunology, and the fight to eradicate the world's most feared diseases. From Edward Jenner's discovery of vaccination in 1796, to the early nineteenth-century foundling voyages in which chains of orphans, vaccinated one by one, were sent to colonies around the globe, to the development of polio vaccines and the stockpiling of smallpox as a biological weapon in the Cold War, world-renown immunologist John Rhodes charts our fight against these plagues, and shows how vaccinations gave humanity the upper hand. Today, aid groups including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization have made the eradication of polio a priority, and Rhodes takes us behind the scenes to witness the hard-fought battles of scientist, philanthropists, volunteers, and more, and how soon we may be celebrating the eradication of a second infectious disease, polio"--Provided by publisher.</p>

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The end of plagues : the global battle against infectious disease / John Rhodes.

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Obesity : preventing and managing the global epidemic.

Global health and global aging / Mary Robinson [and others], editors ; foreword by Robert N. Butler.

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Global health care : issues and policies / [edited by] Carol Holtz.

"1000 Handshakes" is a performance piece during which the artist shakes hands with as many people as possible, gradually changing the invisible microbial community in the palm of his hand. Periodically, assistants take a swab from the skin, and the samples are analyzed in the lab to reveal how our contact with others shapes the microbes between us. This ongoing project has been performed in different cities around the world (including Copenhagen, Montreal, San Francisco, Perth, Berlin and Baltimore) as a way to map our collective microbiome using scientific data.



Production of the 'microbiome selfies' involved many different steps. Following the collection of the microbiome samples, bacterial DNA was extracted, amplified and sequenced to create the bioinformatic data shown in this series. The nodes of the networks represent bacterial DNA sequences, and two nodes are connected by an edge (line) when the bacterial DNA sequences have more than 95% similarity. The different colours correspond to distinct samples collected at every 50th handshake, from 0 to 1001. 



This image corresponds to the 12th image in this 21-part series, showing the extensive microbiome resulting from 550 handshakes.

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The end of plagues : the global battle against infectious disease / John Rhodes.

Obesity : preventing and managing the global epidemic.

Global health and global aging / Mary Robinson [and others], editors ; foreword by Robert N. Butler.

Global health care : issues and policies / [edited by] Carol Holtz.

Bacterial microbiome mapping, bioartistic experiment

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The end of plagues : the global battle against infectious disease / John Rhodes.

Obesity : preventing and managing the global epidemic.

Global health and global aging / Mary Robinson [and others], editors ; foreword by Robert N. Butler.

Global health care : issues and policies / [edited by] Carol Holtz.

Bacterial microbiome mapping, bioartistic experiment

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