If #microbes have evolved to survive the most extreme conditions, then what about the ones brave enough to hitch a ride on our #morning #commutes? Showtime 🤸🏻‍♂️, anyone?⠀ #Urban #metagenomics (the study of genetic material recovered directly from a #city #environment) will clue us into just how wonderfully populous and #diverse the array of our microbial neighbors are, and how they’ve shifted and adapted to city life alongside us. ⠀ ⠀ #Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College mapped the #DNA found in New York’s #subway system—a #subterranean behemoth that carries 5.5 million riders on an average #weekday. Almost half of the DNA found on the system’s surfaces did not match any known #organism and just 0.2 percent matched the #human #genome. 🤭⠀ ⠀ ❗️Newsflash: our microbial friends are everywhere. 🤗⠀