10 Aug 2025

Could microbes help unlock the mystery of dementia?

From Sunday Morning, 11:06 am on 10 August 2025

Molecular biologist Professor Richard Lathe joins us to discuss the provocative idea that the brain may host its own microbiome—a hidden world of bacteria and fungi that could play a role in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.  

Atoms in the human brain, illustration. (Photo by MEHAU KULYK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRAR / MKU / Science Photo Library via AFP)

Photo: MEHAU KULYK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRAR