A gloved hand holds a petri dish containing various colorful bacterial colonies. A blue inoculating loop hovers above the dish, indicating the process of culturing or analyzing the bacteria. The background is a pale blue, creating a clinical laboratory setting.

What are microbes and probiotics?

All single celled organisms are microbes, this includes viruses. A microbiome is the sum of all the single celled organisms living in and on a body. All living things have…