Human Microbiome (IMAGE)

Duke University

Human Microbiome

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Duke scientists have identified microbes that diverged into new species to specialized in colonizing one area after another of the human body. The new analysis used mathematical tools originally developed for geologists.

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Jonathan Fuller, Duke University

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