Body Count: Taking Stock of all the Bugs That Call Humans Home

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 16:30 in Biology & Nature

The microbes that inhabit our bodies are intimately involved in human health and disease yet we still know relatively little about them. A new major census of these tiny symbionts has revealed that they are an even more diverse bunch than was once presumed. [More]

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