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Today in celebration of Women's Health Month, we are going to dive into the work of Fatima Aisha

Hussein, who has been asking questions about microbes.

Questions about how the different microbes there are evolving and interacting with each

other and their ecosystem, which happens to be the vagina.

Fatima studies the vagina.

Really, she studies the vaginal microbiome.

As a postdoctoral research scientist

at the Reagan Institute of MGH, MIT in Harvard.

I've definitely been obsessing over vaginas

for a while. I started out studying

environmental engineering in women's and gender studies in undergrad and then I

hopped over to microbiology and now I get to combine you know radical feminism with

microbiology in this really cool way. Before studying the vaginal microbiome

Vatima researched microbes in the ocean. So I hope to use what I learned in how bacteria evolve in the ocean and apply it to

understanding how bacteria are evolving in the human vagina.

And in studying the vagina, Fatima wants to focus on helping people fighting a condition called

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