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

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 ...

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 ...