Science Magazine Podcast
Why tracing cyclosporiasis is so tough, and a digestible probe for the microbiome
Sarah Crespi, Laura Martín Agudelo, Leslie Chan, Mona Patterson
Published Aug 20, 2026
29 min
Description
Science journalists discuss why the food-borne illness cyclosporiasis is difficult to track and a new map of a major highway in the human nervous system. Leslie Chan then explains an ingestible metabolic probe that detects gut-microbiome enzyme activity from volatile signals in the breath.
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