Saturday, March 13, 2010

Revealed: The 160 Species Living Inside Our Guts

The human gut: home to numerous species of unknown microbes. Science Photo Library

From The Independent:

Scientists have decoded the DNA of the bacteria that take up residence in the typical human body.

Some scientists dream of sending a probe to Mars, others work on ways of exploring the sea bed with robotic submersibles. Now a team of researchers have boldly gone where no human has gone before – they have decoded all the bacterial genes found in the human gut.

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