A massive study catalogues the microbes in the healthy human body, uncovering an unexpected level of individual variation in microbial makeup, among other surprises.
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The theory that people can largely be divided into three groups based on their dominant gut microbiota species is called into question.
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The overuse of antibiotics could be threatening humans' microbiome—and Martin Blaser is on a mission to save it.
Researchers take pictures and analyze bacterial cultures from the bellybuttons of hundreds of American volunteers.
Sequences from a US government-funded program to paint a genomic picture of the human gut's complex ecosystem are going public for the first time since the effort started in 2008. Researchers sequenced thousands of samples taken from 300 healthy v
As much as rainforests or deep-sea vents, the human gut holds rich stores of microbial chemicals that should be mined for their pharmacological potential.
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