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🗓️ 28 August 2019
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcp.co.j.jot.com.j. That's y-A-K-U-L-T-C-O-J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:33.7 | This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta. |
0:39.4 | Mosquitoes are precision guided to their prey by plumes of carbon dioxide, heat, and humidity. |
0:45.1 | Sort of like how we follow our noses sometimes. |
0:47.7 | It's like us passing a restaurant or something. |
0:50.0 | We might look at the signs. |
0:51.4 | We might look at the display case. |
0:52.8 | We might smell. |
0:53.6 | It's like a lot of things they do. |
0:54.8 | They're very smart, unfortunately. |
0:56.9 | Robert Hurt, a chemical engineer at Brown University. |
0:59.8 | As the Skeeters get closer to us, he says, they also even smell and taste. |
1:04.6 | They have these things called gustatory receptors. |
1:06.7 | So they taste chemicals associated with your sweat. |
1:10.6 | You have bacteria on your skin. The bacteria metabolized compounds in your sweat, |
1:15.3 | and the mosquitoes detect those. |
1:17.1 | You know what happens next? The bite. |
1:19.5 | But Hurt and his colleagues have discovered a novel way to block them with graphene, |
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