Vaginal microbes play a huge role in overall health, but researchers know relatively little about them. Citizen science could help change that.

Ask Jacques Ravel what first got him interested in the vaginal microbiome, and you’ll get a seemingly strange answer: acid mine drainage. Twenty years ago, Ravel, a microbial ecologist ...

a professor of microbiology and immunology and the acting director of the Institute for Genome Sciences at University of Maryland-Baltimore   Are Gut-Friendly Foods Good for Your Vaginal ...

Jacques Ravel, PhD, Co-Author and Acting Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences and Professor of Microbiology and ...