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News about our microbiome and how it affects our health is everywhere.听At New Scientist Live next month, biologist听 will delve into this topic, focusing on听how our lifestyles can lead to changes in the communities of microbes in our mouths and how these changes might diminish our general wellbeing and potentially lead to diseases like Alzheimer鈥檚.
Based at the University of Central Lancashire, Singhrao鈥檚 goal is to discover causative links between oral health and the development of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease. Ultimately, she is hoping to find strategies we can use to delay or prevent the disease.
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