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Contact: Geoff Spencer
spencerg@mail.nih.gov
301-402-0911
NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute

Human Gut Microbe

Caption: The bacterium, Entercoccus faecalis, which lives in the human gut, is just one type of microbe that will be studied as part of NIH's Human Microbiome Project.

Credit: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Related news release: NIH launches Human Microbiome Project


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