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Human Microbiome Project
BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Started conversation Aug 19, 2010
This is fascinating - a plan to map every single species of microbe in the human body. For example, they have been found to reside deep in the lungs, a region which, hitherto had been thought to be sterile. This has implications for people with asthma.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7949651/Human-Microbiome-Project-a-map-of-every-bacterium-in-the-body.html
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