Unprecedented microbial diversity reported in remote Amazonian tribe
Friday, April 17, 2015 - 18:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
April 17, 2015 - A multicenter team of U.S. and Venezuelan scientists, led by researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center, have discovered the most diverse collection of bodily bacteria yet in humans among an isolated tribe of Yanomami Indians in the remote Amazonian jungles of southern Venezuela.