Scientists find bacterial zoo thrives in our skin
Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 15:56
in Biology & Nature
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eeeww. There's a zoo full of critters living on your skin - a bacterial zoo, that is. Consider your underarm a rain forest. Healthy skin is home to a much wider variety of bacteria than scientists ever knew, says the first big census of our co-inhabitants. And that's not a bad thing, said genetics specialist Julia Segre of the National Institutes of Health, who led the research....
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